D. W. Wilson Quotes

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Border security is a safety issue.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.

Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.

No place is ever the same tomorrow.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

There's a great universe just next door.

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.