William Wordsworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
-
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
-
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
-
My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
-
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
-
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
-
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
-
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
-
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
-
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
-
I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
-
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
-
I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
-
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
-
I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
-
If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
-
If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
-
If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
-
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.
-
In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.
-
I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.
-
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
