D. W. Wilson Quotes

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."

A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.

Use what talents you have the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy falsehood and deceit.

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

What poison is to food self-pity is to life.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endurance of an early Christian.

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.

I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture imagine where things can happen in space.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

To wear a floral shirt is an experience.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.