Mo Williams Quotes

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.

We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with our own neighbors, and within our own homes and families.

People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour.

I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.

The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

Just another four-letter word.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!