August Wilson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
-
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
-
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-
There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
-
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
-
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
-
If you give a party, you better give it right.
-
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
-
That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
-
I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
-
The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.
-
You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.
-
I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
-
I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!
-
I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.
-
I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.
-
I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.
-
I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.
-
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
-
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
-
When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.
-
Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.
-
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
-
Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
