William Isyanov Quotes

But it was so much more. In that white blouse you wore, you looked like Grace Kelly, sharing a joke with a schnauzer, then you smiled at me and i was included, the three of us alone together. I thought, there's a woman I could die for. ~ Phillipa Fioretti

Of those few fools, who with ill stars are curst,
Sure scribbling fools, called poets, fare the worst:
For they're a sort of fools which fortune makes,
And, after she has made them fools, forsakes.
With Nature's oafs 'tis quite a different case,
For Fortune favours all her idiot race.
In her own nest the cuckoo eggs we find,
Over which she broods to hatch the changeling kind:
No portion for her own she has to spare,
So much she dotes on her adopted care.
Poets are bubbles, by the town drawn in,
Suffered at first some trifling stakes to win:
But what unequal hazards do they run!
Each time they write they venture all they've won:
The Squire that's buttered still, is sure to be undone.
This author, heretofore, has found your favour,
But pleads no merit from his past behaviour.
To build on that might prove a vain presumption,
Should grant to poets made admit resumption,
And in Parnassus he must lose his seat,
If that be found a forfeited estate. ~ William Congreve

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself? ~ William Arthur Ward

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have. ~ William P. Leahy

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later. ~ William Jackson

Nothing is worse than being loud and wrong. ~ William J. Barber II

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero. ~ William J. Bernstein

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. ~ William Vickrey

If he expected an answer - and he wasn't certain that he didn't - he was disappointed. He told himself he had imagined the voice in the wind. The Windigo was a myth.
But there was a part of him that knew different. Sam Winter Moon has cautioned him long ago that it was best to believe in all possibilities, that there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand. ~ William Kent Krueger

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things. ~ William James

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. ~ William Blake

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. ~ William Ames

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel. ~ William Golding

One law for lion and ox is oppression. ~ William Blake

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should. ~ William H. Macy

If a story is in you, it has got to come out. ~ William Faulkner

In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last. ~ William Shakespeare

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" ~ William Langewiesche

There was no denying the fact that there was a certain excitement in the air. ~ William Goldman

The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to see ... Abruptly, it floated free, tumbling end over end, and she sprang for it instinctively, caught it, and went tumbling past the flashing arms, her treasure in her arms. ~ William Gibson

It is not to his own age, but to those following, and especially to our own time, that we are to look for the shaping and enormous influence upon human life of the genius of this poet. And it is measured not by the libraries of comments that his works have called forth, but by the prevalence of the language and thought of his poetry in all subsequent literature, and by its entrance into the current of common thought and speech. It may be safely said that the English-speaking world and almost every individual of it are different from what they would have been if Shakespeare had never lived. Of all the forces that have survived out of his creative time, he is one of the chief. ~ William Shakespeare

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us. ~ William T. Vollmann

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. ~ William Wordsworth

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. ~ William Alfred Quayle

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it. ~ William Gurnall

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all. ~ William Kent Krueger

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. ~ William Ralph Inge

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself. ~ William S. Burroughs

That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever. ~ William Penn

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are. ~ William Randolph Hearst

If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever. ~ William Fritz

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. ~ William Shakespeare

Common sense often makes good law. ~ William O. Douglas

48 Now we understand, also, that God is perfected in threes. Now, God is "perfected" in three. "Grace" is five. Seven is "completion," like the world. ~ William Branham