William Wharton Quotes

The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

William Wharton

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Long
  • Night
  • Ride

• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Where
  • Torah

• I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Career
  • Try

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Peace
  • Sunday

• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Year
  • Mystery
  • Damn

• I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Book
  • Political

• What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Music
  • Amazing
  • Leaving

• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • People
  • Great
  • Night

• If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Wish
  • Air

• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Today
  • Air
  • Half

• The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

  

  William Wharton
  • Air
  • Alive
  • Flew