| Author | Quote |
Topic |
|---|
| W. Gardner, John | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. " | Experience |
| Walcha, Helmut | "Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. " | Music |
| Waldo Emerson, Ralph | "The years teach much which the days never knew. " | Experience |
| Wall, Larry | "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. " | Technology |
| Wall, Larry | "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. " | Technology |
| Wallace, Lance A. | "We're all living in a chemical soup. " | Science |
| Walpole, Hugh | "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. " | Science |
| Walter, Nicolas | "Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. " | Government |
| Ward, William A. | "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. " | Business |
| Ward Beeche, Henry | "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. " | Faith |
| Ward Beeche, Henry | "Faith is spiritualized imagination. " | Faith |
| Warga, Tom | "This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce our brand image. " | Business |
| Warhol, Andy | "An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. " | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. " | Movie |
| Warhol, Andy | "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. " | Business |
| Warhol, Andy | "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. " | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. " | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. " | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "I am a deeply superficial person. " | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. " | Art |
| Warhol, Andy | "I like boring things." | Art |
| Warren, Robert Penn | "The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." " | Poetry |
| Warren, Robert Penn | "The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. " | Poetry |
| Warren, Earl | "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. " | Patriotism |
| Washington, Booker T. | "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. " | Success |
| Washington, George | "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. " | Government |
| Washington, George | "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. " | Friendship |
| Watson, James D. | "Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. " | Science |
| Watson, Thomas J. | "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. " | Technology |
| Watson, Thomas J. | "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. " | Business |
| Watson, Thomas J. | "If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. " | Business |
| Watson, Thomas J. | "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops." | Business |
| Watterson, Bill | "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. " | Dream |
| Webster, Daniel | "The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. " | Society |
| Weil, Simone | "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. " | Imagination |
| Weizenbaum, Joseph | "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs. " | Technology |
| Welch, Jack | "It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy. " | Technology |
| Welles, Orson | "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. " | Movie |
| Wells, H. G. | "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. " | History |
| Wells, H. G. | "If we don't end war, war will end us. " | War |
| Werner, Oskar | "I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. " | Movie |
| West, Jessamyn | "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. " | History |
| West, Jessamyn | "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. " | Imagination |
| Westmoreland, Gen William C. | "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. " | War |
| Westmoreland, Gen William C. | "I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. " | War |
| Whistler, James McNeill | "I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. " | Intelligence |
| White, E. B. | "Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. " | Art |
| White, Theodore H. | "If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. " | Business |
| White, Theodore H. | "I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. " | History |
| White, Byron R. | "The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. " | History |
| White, E. B. | "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. " | Intelligence |
| White, E. B. | "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. " | Life |
| White, E. B. | "I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. " | Science |
| White, E. B. | "A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. " | Poetry |
| Whitehead, Alfred North | "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. " | Technology |
| Whitman, Meg | "Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. " | Business |
| Whitman, Meg | "What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. " | Technology |
| Whitman, Walt | "To have great poets, there must be great audiences. " | Poetry |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf | "Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. " | Peace |
| Wiesel, Elie | "Some stories are true that never happened. " | Imagination |
| Wiggam, Albert Edward | "Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. " | Education |
| Wilcox, Ella Wheeler | "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. " | Art |
| Wilczek, Frank | "In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. " | Science |
| Wilde, Oscar | "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. " | Poetry |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. " | Success |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. " | Experience |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. " | Education |
| Wilde, Oscar | "A poet can survive everything but a misprint. " | Poetry |
| Wilde, Oscar | "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. " | Art |
| Wilde, Oscar | "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. " | Art |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. " | Art |
| Wilde, Oscar | "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. " | Art |
| Wilde, Oscar | "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. " | Technology |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. " | Experience |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Who, being loved, is poor? " | Love |
| Wilde, Oscar | "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. " | Music |
| Wilde, Oscar | "True friends stab you in the front. " | Friendship |
| Wilder, Billy | "Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. " | Movie |
| Wilensky, Robert | "We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. " | Technology |
| Will, George F. | "If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. " | Government |
| Will, George F. | "The future has a way of arriving unannounced. " | History |
| Will, George F. | "Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment. " | History |
| Will, George F. | "World War II was the last government program that really worked. " | History |
| Willard, Nancy | "Sometimes questions are more important than answers. " | Life |
| Williams, Robin | "Carpe per diem-seize the check. " | Business |
| Williams, Tennessee | "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. " | Success |
| Williamson, Marianne | "Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. " | Religion |
| Wilson, Earl | "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. " | Success |
| Wilson, Flip | "You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. " | Technology |
| Wilson, Woodrow | "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. " | Intelligence |
| Wilson, Woodrow | "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. " | Dream |
| Wilson, Woodrow | "The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. " | Government |
| Wilson, Sloan | "Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. " | Success |
| Wilson, Woodrow | "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. " | History |
| Winchell, Walter | "Nothing recedes like success. " | Success |
| Winfrey, Oprah | "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. " | Friendship |
| Winslow, Thyra Samter | "Platonic love is love from the neck up. " | Love |
| Winters, Jonathan | "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. " | Success |
| Winterson, Jeanette | "We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. " | Friendship |
| Witcomb, Jon | "Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait. " | Art |
| Woodberry, George E. | "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. " | Success |
| Woods, Tiger | "I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. " | Business |
| Woodworth, Fred | "It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. " | War |
| Woodworth, Fred | "If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. " | Government |
| Woodworth, Fred | "Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. " | Government |
| Woollcott, Alexander | "I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. " | Government |
| Wordsworth, William | "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. " | Art |
| Wordsworth, William | "Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. " | Art |
| Wordsworth, William | "Faith is a passionate intuition. " | Faith |
| Wordsworth, William | "Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. " | Dream |
| Wordsworth, William | "In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. " | Business |
| Wozniak, Steve | "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. " | Computer |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. " | Art |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | "Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. " | Art |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | "Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. " | Business |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. " | Technology |
