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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Shah Jahan, who provedan emperor to be shorter than a lover,who turned a grave into a templewho gave his beloved a place of Godand converted love into a prayer.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Prayer

• I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Job
  • Hand

• Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Political

• The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • True
  • Texas

• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Unique

• Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Kind

• Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

  

  Curt Gowdy
  • Today
  • Game
  • Perfect

• The time that we kill keeps us alive.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Time
  • Alive
  • Kill

• But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Help

• 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