William T. Wiley Quotes

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

William T. Wiley

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• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Sense

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Sound

• I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Change
  • Marriage

• We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Myths

• When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Pretty

• The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Mechanism
  • Trigger
  • Coping

• When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Job

• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Extraordinary
  • Disposition

• Life is a great disappointment.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Life is
  • Disappointment

• I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Sorry
  • Numbers
  • Lied

• Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Fall
  • Chances
  • Ride

• There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Country
  • American

• In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Anger
  • Trade
  • Fighter

• I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Sound
  • Perfection
  • Medicine

• You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Arts
  • Automate