William Claytor Quotes

Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away. ~ Ian Doescher

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires. ~ William Arthur Ward

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ~ William Trevor

But peace is my heart: I know it is. ~ William Faulkner

A good heart 'is worth gold. ~ William Shakespeare

Gratitude, in itself, is heaven. ~ William Blake

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid. ~ William Golding

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, - bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties. ~ William Mountford

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. ~ William Butler Yeats

His face with lined with suffering in which his eyes did not participate. ~ William S. Burroughs

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle. ~ William McDonough

Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing. ~ William Arthur Ward

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. ~ William Carlos Williams

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously. ~ William Zinsser

Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness! ~ William Shakespeare

I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance. ~ William Lane Craig

What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose. ~ William James

Who does not believe his first passion eternal? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child. ~ William J. Clinton

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn. ~ William C. Bryant

He saw Case and smiled, his teeth a webwork of East European steel and brown decay. ~ William Gibson

Women may fail when there is no strength in man ~ William Shakespeare

Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to Endless Night

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake ~ William Blake

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~ Augustus William Hare

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor. ~ Seann William Scott

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
he will give the devil his due. ~ William Shakespeare

Such a person has no place. He can't be found. He's like one of those unphysical things they talk about in science now–like one of those things that's moving, you know, always moving on, but through no space. ~ William H. Gass

Come ye viewless ministers of this dread hour! Come from the fenny lake, the hanging rock, and the midnight cave! The moon is red – the stars are out – the sky is burning – and all nature stands aghast at what we do! ~ William Mudford

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues. ~ William Shakespeare

If, after having been in someone's presence, you feel like you've lost a quart of plasma - avoid that presence. No one likes to hear the word "vampire" used around here... it's kind of bad for our public image. ~ William S. Burroughs

Who would fardels bear,
To groan and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all; ~ William Shakespeare

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. ~ William Gibson

How deeply one felt when alone. ~ William Steig