Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.


George Wallace

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wra...
DICK STUART
I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they g...
CRAIG T. NELSON
I didn't hear anybody booing me when I was done. A lot of people were giving me a standing ovation w...
CHRIS FULLER
They gave him a standing O (ovation) when he went out onto the field the next inning.
BRANDON INGE
When we walked in we were given a standing ovation, my crew and me.
BOB WOODRUFF
During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my...
NORAH JONES
It was really cool. I was back after the long suspension and they gave me an ovation. I liked that t...
RON ARTEST
The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It wa...
CAMREN BICONDOVA
I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
FLIP WILSON
It was almost a standing ovation. It made me feel pretty good.
TONY MILLER
George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, a...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
The fans were so nice when I took Holly out of the game. They gave her a standing ovation, recognizi...
JANET TATE
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of ...
LAURIE GRAHAM
It was the most spectacular thing. That was the first spontaneous standing ovation I had ever seen i...
DON POH
It's the first time I ever got a standing ovation in the sky.
LAWRENCE WELK
I was really moved when we received a standing ovation at the football game. It showed me how much p...
CHRIS SIMPSON
I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorre...
CHANDLER RIGGS
The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties...
TONY BENNETT
I stayed strong, and I believed in myself and to finish up a strong program and get a standing ovati...
SASHA COHEN
I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremen...
ELAINE PAIGE
I really enjoyed working with Guy Ritchie. One, it gave me a career, and two, they're probably a...
JASON STATHAM
Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washingto...
JULIAN BOND
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You h...
SIMON COWELL
Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe L...
BOB GUNTON
Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put a...
RUDY GIULIANI
I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain...
BURT BACHARACH
I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept ...
FLEA
This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bough...
NINA SIMONE
The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mom...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK
Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the re...
LIL WAYNE
The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever en...
ERIKA SLEZAK
I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
LEONA LEWIS
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that wa...
BILL GOLDBERG
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot o...
GARRY SHANDLING
They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE
I decided it would be most inappropriate for me to make any
comments on George Wallace or his h...
FRANK JOHNSON
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I...
ED BRADLEY
People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had gu...
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to d...
ROBERT PLANT
If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do so...
BILLY WEST
I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have ...
MARA WILSON
He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put ...
ALLEN GINSBERG
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.
PETER BOFINGER
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a mor...
VERONICA ROTH
You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
DONALD TRUMP
I put the team through a lot of hell ever since I've been with them but they never gave up on me, .....
TONY STEWART
I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes...
SHILPA SHETTY
I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the '...
MING-NA WEN
Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that...
NENEH CHERRY
I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just...
DOROTHY ATKINSON
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
GAYLE FORMAN
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the rig...
SAMMY SOSA
I've tried to start my kids on 'Doctor Who,' but they're just not there yet. Someone...
KRISTIAN BUSH
Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going ...
LA INDIA
I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I w...
BOBBY BRAGAN
I've got my eye on Big Cass and Enzo Amore. I think they ooze everything that it takes to be a W...
JOHN CENA
Most people would put me firmly in the nerd/geek category. It wouldn't be a change from where I&...
KYLE HILL
I've been into guns ever since I was a little kid, and the ones that fascinate me most are the b...
JOE PERRY
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they ...
LARRY BIRD
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, ...
BLACK ELK
I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'...
DANIEL HUMM
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand...
SANDRA BULLOCK
'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there...
CAITLYN JENNER
The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new exp...
HUGH DANCY
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or lon...
GEORGE HALAS
I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It...
BONNIE RAITT
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, ...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went ...
TOMMY CHONG
I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the r...
MADHURI DIXIT
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't cam...
ROB LOWE
I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother fo...
RYAN REYNOLDS
Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME
Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME
Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :)
If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME
When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I pick...
BINDI IRWIN
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin...
MEL BROOKS
I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn&...
VICTOR ORTIZ
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite some...
MICHAEL CAINE
Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something t...
FLEA
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been ...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed me in 'Kings of Summer,' which was his debut feature. I got to ...
ERIN MORIARTY
When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of det...
ROBERT FISK
I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a stan...
JOHN MCAFEE
What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, o...
VICKI LAWRENCE
I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on ...
GLENN BECK
I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never b...
OLIVIA COLMAN
To be completely frank, it really (ticked) me off, put a little bit of a chip on my shoulder. It gav...
ANDY RODDICK
The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me...
PAUL WATSON
I've been on Letterman a couple of times. I've been on Leno more than a couple times, and no...
MITT ROMNEY
Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn...
DAN DECARLO
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
BILLIE HOLIDAY
I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They ...
ISABEL LUCAS
When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
ELI ROTH
This was our first standing ovation in church.
DENNIS MOTYKA

More George Wallace

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the...
GEORGE WALLACE
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were para...
GEORGE WALLACE
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties:...
GEORGE WALLACE
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years...
GEORGE WALLACE
Our rates are lower than in those other states. Perhaps us having outside counsel has helped us,
GEORGE WALLACE
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
GEORGE WALLACE
Being governor don't mean a thing anymore in this country. We're nothing. Just high-paid ornaments i...
GEORGE WALLACE
It's my show. I just bring in friends now and again, different people at different times.
GEORGE WALLACE
It's a really exciting thing. There is a population of really talented writers ? in America and inte...
GEORGE WALLACE
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain...
GEORGE WALLACE
We're stocking up now before it goes up more. This is expected. If it wasn't one tragedy it would be...
GEORGE WALLACE
I stood there and kept peace, ... But it still was a bad public relations posture and I'm sorry I di...
GEORGE WALLACE
Sixty percent of my days,
GEORGE WALLACE
That's a terrible idea. How are you going to threaten somebody to get what you want? Let them sit do...
GEORGE WALLACE
I am going to give the moral support of the presidency to the police and firemen.
GEORGE WALLACE
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say Segregation ...
GEORGE WALLACE
It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of ...
GEORGE WALLACE
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny th...
GEORGE WALLACE
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
GEORGE WALLACE
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in ...
GEORGE WALLACE
I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents (during his 1968 presid...
GEORGE WALLACE
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation ...
GEORGE WALLACE
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
GEORGE WALLACE
I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents.
GEORGE WALLACE
The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans b...
GEORGE WALLACE
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people
GEORGE WALLACE
It's helped me extensively as I have researched issues that benefited the people of Alabama,
GEORGE WALLACE
I bid you a fond and affectionate farewell,
GEORGE WALLACE
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change...
GEORGE C. WALLACE
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the y...
GEORGE C. WALLACE
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
GEORGE C. WALLACE
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation ...
GEORGE C. WALLACE
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
GEORGE C. WALLACE
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
GEORGE C. WALLACE
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay ...
GEORGE C. WALLACE
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
GEORGE C. WALLACE
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
GEORGE C. WALLACE
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
WALLACE STEVENS
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS
The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS
Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
WALLACE STEVENS
Hard writing makes easy reading.
WALLACE STEGNER
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue an...
WALLACE STEGNER
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
WALLACE STEGNER
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supportin...
WALLACE SHAWN
There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou...
WALLACE SHAWN
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
WALLACE SHAWN
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por...
WALLACE SHAWN
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe...
WALLACE SHAWN
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
WALLACE SHAWN
I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth...
WALLACE SHAWN
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ...
WALLACE SHAWN
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ...
WALLACE SHAWN
My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth...
WALLACE SHAWN
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
WALLACE SHAWN
'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would...
WALLACE SHAWN
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ...
WALLACE SHAWN
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
WALLACE SHAWN
I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess...
WALLACE SHAWN
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr...
WALLACE SHAWN
We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ...
WALLACE SHAWN
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any...
WALLACE SHAWN
I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I...
WALLACE SHAWN
Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE
You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint ...
WALLACE STEGNER
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
WALLACE STEVENS
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom...
WALLACE STEVENS
O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com...
WILLIAM WALLACE
Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.
NICOLLE WALLACE
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE
Cut blocking is not fair, it's going after the legs. It would be the same thing if in NASCAR you wer...
AL WALLACE
Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s...
AL WALLACE
If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second ...
AL WALLACE
You win football games by stopping the run and 1,800 yards this year is definitely a priority for us...
AL WALLACE
It's a good feeling to go out and play like we did. So many guys made so many plays today. We gave t...
AL WALLACE
It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens...
AL WALLACE
You try to contain (Vick) as best you can, but once he's in your sights you have to open fire. If yo...
AL WALLACE
With our legs and knees there is enough bad stuff that can happen on accident. But to allow someone ...
AL WALLACE
I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap.
AL WALLACE
It's kind of scary. You look at the things they're doing, 4-0 now, it's kind of parallel to what we ...
AL WALLACE
I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean.
ALAN WALLACE
These guys are so dedicated and passionate about what they do.
ALAN WALLACE
I'm a qualified lifeguard and have being teaching people how to surf for five years now. Victor used...
ALAN WALLACE
I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it.
ALAN WALLACE
The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you wan...
ALAN WALLACE
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind ...
MARCIA WALLACE
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo...
WALLACE STEVENS
They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as th...
WALLACE STEVENS
I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then lear...
WILLIAM WALLACE
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
WALLACE SAYRE
Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? ...
T.R. WALLACE
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersect...
WALLACE STEGNER
Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds a...
CARLOS WALLACE
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ...
WALLACE STEVENS
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
WALLACE STEVENS
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...
WALLACE STEGNER
I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE
If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE
A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE
If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE
They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE
It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE
You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE
I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE
They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE
Ultimately, it’s about determining what matters most to you; what’s important; what it will take...
CARLOS WALLACE
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
DANIEL WALLACE
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS
How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS
The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS
The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS
I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE
Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS
[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS
Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE
When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE
I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE
I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE
There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE
People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE
Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE
Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN
Um, Larry likes to coach.
BEN WALLACE
What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win g...
BEN WALLACE
Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.
BEN WALLACE
Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play bas...
BEN WALLACE
It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major...
BEN WALLACE
He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.
BEN WALLACE
I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea...
BEN WALLACE
All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h...
BEN WALLACE
They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all...
BEN WALLACE
That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is...
BEN WALLACE
Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing.
ANDREW WALLACE
We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n...
ANDREW WALLACE
We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
ANDREW WALLACE
We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday].
ANDREW WALLACE
The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have t...
ANDY WALLACE
I've been coming here since the '50s.
ANDY WALLACE
You need very good reliability and a car that has strength. Many of us are in the same boat this yea...
ANDY WALLACE
Last year I thought the field was as strong as it's ever been, and it's better this year. Unless you...
ANDY WALLACE
What we are doing is just a sport and the situation with MDA puts things in perspective. No matter w...
ANDY WALLACE
My sense is that this bounce in bond prices and drop in yield is probably short-term.
ANDY WALLACE
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
WALLACE STEGNER