D. W. Wilson Quotes
“You know what they say about sympathy...it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”
D. W. Wilson
Quotes to Explore
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
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'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.
Bonnie McKee
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I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.
Jim Rash
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In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
Mary Ellen Mark
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It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
Igor Sikorsky
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My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and... placing bets...
Emo Philips
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
Florence Nightingale
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin
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Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.
Aldous Huxley
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“You know what they say about sympathy...it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”
D. W. Wilson
