August Wilson Quotes

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

August Wilson

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• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.

  

  Randy Moss
  • School
  • Guy
  • Able

• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Express

• I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Superhuman

• Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • God
  • Single

• No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Sports
  • Outdoor

• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Up

• Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

  

  Mary Beard

• What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

  

  Jason Alexander

• As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

  

  Alex Berenson

• In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Everyday

• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Career

• I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.

  

  Armin Zoggeler
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• It's impossible to accept love from anyone else if you don't love yourself. It's a big issue, particularly for us plus-size ladies and for anyone dealing with weight, because we're not taught to love ourselves or be our own cheerleaders.

  

  Chrissy Metz

• We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

  

  Frank Moore Colby
  • Alone

• I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • God
  • Eyes

• We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • City

• This argument too shows that in truth we know nothing about anything, but every man shares the generally prevailing opinion.

  

  Democritus
  • Truth
  • Opinion

• In conformity with the recommendation of Congress, a proposition was early made to the British Government to abolish the mixed courts created under the treaty of April 7, 1862, for the suppression of the slave trade. The subject is still under negotiation.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • April

• The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

  

  August Wilson
  • April