Crank Wilson Quotes

And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?"
"Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life. ~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

I want you to love me."
"I don't even know you."
"Then I'll settle for a date. Bowling? ~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

That's why you love me."
"I do not love you. I don't even like you."
"You will," he said, his voice low and luscious. ~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

Because you make me better. You make me-you make me feel like I matter. Like my life matters. I feel like, with you, I can do anything in the world. That we can do anything in the world. And we will. ~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities. ~ August Wilson

If you say that everything - chaos, darkness, anathema - can be reduced to mathematical formulae - then man will go insane on purpose to have no judgement, and to behave as he likes. I believe this because it appears that man's whole business is to prove that he is a man and not a cog-wheel... And perhaps, who knows, the striving of man on earth may consist in this uninterrupted striving for something ahead, that is, in life itself rather than some real end which obviously must be a static formula of the same kind as two and two make four - I am sure that man will never renounce the genuine suffering that comes of ruin and chaos. Why, suffering is the one and only source of knowledge ~ Colin Wilson

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline. ~ Colin Wilson

I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem. ~ Kevin Wilson

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care. ~ James Q. Wilson

I WOKE WITH a start, my head hurting, aching all over. For a moment I didn't know where I was. Indeed, I felt so fuddled I didn't even know who I was. Hetty Feather, Sapphire Battersea, Emerald Star? I had three names now. ~ Jacqueline Wilson

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

In our lands, the prophesies say:
'Offered then denied,
Bride of Morning,
Dark's only hope of peace.
A deal with death he strikes,
And from his mouth springs truth
To save the morning light.' ~ Sarah K.L. Wilson

Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our pluralistic times, these blasphemy laws are called "hate crimes" legislation, among other euphemisms, but they are really religious protections to keep the reigning god, demos, from being blasphemed. ~ Douglas Wilson

Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved. ~ Jarrid Wilson

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing. ~ Rainn Wilson

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming. ~ Kenneth G. Wilson

Suddenly I wanted the earlier version back, but there was no retrieving it. When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear. ~ Robert Charles Wilson

The goal of a church leader is not to do ministry for people, but rather to do ministry with people. ~ Eugene T. Wilson

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous. ~ Daniel H. Wilson

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself. ~ Wilson Rawls

You jumped but I'm falling too. ~ August Wilson

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. ~ Harold Wilson

Dad used to read to me before bed when I was little, and if we heard the whistle, Dad would say, 'A train's coming to bring you good dreams.'
Tonight the whistle just sounds lonely. I don't think I'm going to be falling asleep anytime soon. ~ Rachel M. Wilson

A nigger that ain't afraid to die is the worse kind of nigger for the white man. He can't hold that power over you. That's what I learned when I killed that cat. I got the power of death too. ~ August Wilson

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.' ~ Rebel Wilson

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving. ~ Owen Wilson

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. ~ E. O. Wilson

I do acting for the awards ... and cash money. ~ Rebel Wilson

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting. ~ Owen Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. ~ Robert Wilson

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life. ~ George Wilson

It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL ~ G. Willow Wilson

Defeat is always self-chosen. ~ Colin Wilson

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat. ~ Woodrow Wilson

If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment. ~ E. O. Wilson

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. ~ E. O. Wilson

The walls were painted red, and there was the painter up ahead, that candle-maned woman carving her way through the darkness, and carving her way through everyone she thought the darkness owned. ~ Dean F. Wilson

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live. ~ Woodrow Wilson

I realized at that moment that depression and I will always be linked, tugging back and forth, like the drunken uncle who still gets invited to the family reunion even though everyone knows he's going to make a messy scene. ~ Kelly Wilson

'A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it. ~ Rebel Wilson

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America. ~ Woodrow Wilson

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head. ~ Mara Wilson

Like everyone else, I have challenges. ~ Carnie Wilson

In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself. ~ Charlie Wilson

Dallas Willard explains: The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness. . . . And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity with great intelligence causes widespread pangs of "cognitive dissonance." [As with Jesus,] Mother Teresa . . . is thought of as . . . nice, of course, but not really smart. "Smart" means good at managing how life "really" is. ~ Jared C. Wilson

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are. ~ Ann Wilson

His job ruled his day. Cable television infomercials and YouTube searches ruled his nights. ~ Jared C. Wilson

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. ~ Woodrow Wilson