William Nelson Quotes

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • System
  • Capitalism

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • You
  • Without
  • Prosperity

• As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Single
  • Training

• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Job
  • Day

• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Eating
  • Common Sense

• I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Job
  • Government

• I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Cat

• We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Present

• O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - And yet must be - the land where every man is free.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Free

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Up

• There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.

  

  Jerry Kramer
  • Great

• I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Time
  • Men
  • Comprehension

• When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

  

  James Stewart
  • People
  • War
  • Movie

• I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Think
  • Enjoy

• All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Challenge
  • Fire
  • Ring

• Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

  

  William Nelson
  • War
  • Wish
  • Beens