William Osman Quotes

...subway brakes spit ozone... ~ William S. Burroughs

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome. ~ William James

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory. ~ William James

In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind. ~ William Shakespeare

I would not lose so great an honor
As one man more methinks would share with me
For the best hope I have. ~ William Shakespeare

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement. ~ William Blake

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. ~ William Hazlitt

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
But in a dream of friendship,
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his varnished friends? ~ William Shakespeare

Wyatt was, in fact, finding the Christian system suspect. Memory of his fourth birthday party still weighted in his mind. It had been planned cautiously by Aunt May, to the exact number of hats and favors and portions of cake. One guest, no friend to Wyatt (from a family "less fortunate than we are"), showed up with a staunchly party-bent brother. (Not only no friend: a week before he had challenged Wyatt through the fence behind the carriage barn with - Nyaa nyaa, suckinyerma's ti-it-ty ... ) Wyatt was taken to a dark corner, where he later reckoned all Good works were conceived, and told that it was the Christian thing to surrender his portion. So he entered his fifth year hatless among crepe-paper festoons, silent amid snapping crackers, empty of Christian love for the uninvited who asked him why he wasn't having any cake. ~ William Gaddis

Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to the craft that matters the most; the longing to get better and the countless hours of work that go into writing and rewriting. To them I am eternally grateful. ~ Gudjon Bergmann

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. ~ William Wordsworth

Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity. ~ William Styron

And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told. ~ William A. Rusher

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern. ~ William Rounseville Alger

Patch grief with proverbs. ~ William Shakespeare

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space. ~ William Joyce

Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world. ~ Bernard Bailyn

You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security ... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things. ~ William J. Clinton

Quietism, Buddhism, and other religions, everything which denies the flesh - is the great inferiority to God in ourselves, an escapism seeking sanctuary through fear of life and inability to accept 'this reality'. They were hurt? Or was the odalisque unsatisfactory or too expensive? They expected too much for too little, or were too mean to pay - therefore: "All is illusion". But the Stoic smilingly awaits the next shower of shit from heaven. Stoics are not Saviours, Saints or Heroes and are often confused and weary, yet they prefer to find their own way and to accept life as they find it. The schizophrenics, the melancholics and psychotics - they at least are secretive and inflict no religions on others. They prove the possibilities and utilities of 'as if' when totally accepted. ~ Austin Osman Spare

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please. ~ William Congreve

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion. ~ William Shakespeare

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. ~ William Gibson

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. ~ Frederic William Farrar

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience ~ William Penn

If anything of the moment results - so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it. ~ William Carlos Williams

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. ~ William Cowper

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is. ~ William Boyd

Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation. ~ William Henry Channing

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd ~ William Shakespeare

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. ~ William Banting

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Keep your misfortunes to yourself. ~ William Hazlitt

Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination ... ~ William Hazlitt

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life. ~ John William Mackay

The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. ~ William Shakespeare

Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He went on to say, "I am an optimist. It does not seem much use being anything else. ~ William Ury

The challenge for us is this: How can we ensure that, when we try to help others, we do so as effectively as possible? ~ William MacAskill

Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage) so long as it promotes the happiness of the persons married, and the procreation, support, and education of children, and so long as it is founded on the joint free contract of the persons married, and remains under the sanction of the organic society of which those persons are members. ~ William Batchelder Greene

O war! thou son of Hell! ~ William Shakespeare

Zion smelled of cooked vegetables, humanity, and ganja. ~ William Gibson

We are not teaching to the test; we are living to it. ~ William Deresiewicz

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. ~ Douglas William Jerrold

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. ~ William Osler

I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry ... ~ William Butler Yeats

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before. ~ William Holden

I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization. ~ George William Russell

Would I were in an alehouse in London. ~ William Shakespeare

Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with. ~ William Shakespeare