Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.


W. Secker

  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
And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX
We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL
The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON
The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON
Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON
"yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT
The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
HIROSHI HATANAKA
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; / Even there shall ...
BIBLE
Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB
There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING
If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
THOMAS HOOD
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON
The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble ...
JOHN VINOCUR
And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN
To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.
JIM HOUDEK
When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even ...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO TSE-TUNG
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT
I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD
As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
LEWIS CARROLL
Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD
The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a s...
JOHN MASEFIELD
Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moo...
MARTIN BUXBAUM
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
[The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM
He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND
I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP
Voice of the Sea Dogs.
JERRY GREEN
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING
The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI
Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA
It was fairly rough, the sea, but the worst part was the rain. There was quite heavy rain, although ...
DOUGLAS RICE
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and a...
BIBLE
The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN
It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this t...
GARY APPELSON
People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM
I fell to the floor, and then I slid into the sea.
JAIKUMAR GEORGE
They know how dangerous the sea is. They know about the deaths of other immigrants, and despite that...
LUIS CARRION
From what we see, the sea nettles seem to be concentrated in the northern end of Barnegat Bay.
MARC LABELLA
The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in ...
JUAN COLE
It plunged into the sea at an angle of 60 degrees.
VIKTOR BELTSOV
All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
BIBLE
The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet.
'Not always,' I countered.
'Yes, alw...
RUTA SEPETYS
There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
KING SOLOMON
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON
There are plenty of fish in the sea
AMERICAN PROVERB
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE
This is your timeThis is your danceLive every momentLeave nothing to chanceSwim in the seaDrink of t...
MICHAEL W. SMITH
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU
The Sea Pro range of boats are the perfect addition to our new boat portfolio. They are high quality...
IAN ROBERTS
When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys.
ANDREW G. DEHEL
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS
Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS
If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will st...
LED ZEPPELIN
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
KAHLIL GIBRAN
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather ...
EDWARD FORBES
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the ...
BIBLE
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
WILLIAM COWPER
They will redo the whole waterfront in Charlevoix - the sea wall and all the docks will be changed.
BILL BOIK
['The size of the sea' But others say the debate is important because it can determine whether actio...
JUAN COLE
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving f...
CHARLES DICKENS
Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN
The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, ...
LORD BYRON
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

More W. Secker

Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
THOMAS SECKER
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
THOMAS SECKER
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
THOMAS SECKER
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
THOMAS SECKER
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
THOMAS SECKER
Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether.
WILLIAM SECKER
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever
THOMAS SECKER
If the market does have a correction, the worst-performing sector in that correction will have been ...
GRAHAM SECKER
With M&A still a key theme for equity markets, this methodology can continue to outperform.
GRAHAM SECKER
Most people think we're in for a couple more rate hikes in the United States. We'd argue that that w...
GRAHAM SECKER
We question whether companies will be able to pass their input increases on. Even if the oil price g...
GRAHAM SECKER
Another day, another bid -- the market is going above 6,000.
GRAHAM SECKER
The telecoms news was disappointing. We do not have any hopes for that sector in the near term, but ...
GRAHAM SECKER
We are in an environment where there are a lot of M&A rumors and a reasonable amount of (actual) M&A...
GRAHAM SECKER
The retail news was very mixed, there have been winners and losers. It would be right to remain fair...
GRAHAM SECKER
We think the market is in certain circumstances complacent and not enough consideration is being giv...
GRAHAM SECKER
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT
Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER
What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W.
There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W
VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON
You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W
You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W
I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W
Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT
If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL
Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON
Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W.
Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL
When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
W. LEITZEN
We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure ou...
W. EUGENE SMITH
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt t...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reve...
W. EUGENE SMITH
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para...
W. H. AUDEN
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. FIELDS
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot w...
GEORGE W. BUSH
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long i...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in ad...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have...
W. EDWARDS DEMING
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING
People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. FIELDS
There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butle...
W. C. FIELDS
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm ...
W. C. FIELDS
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for th...
W. C. FIELDS
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. FIELDS
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. FIELDS
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. FIELDS
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. FIELDS
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FIELDS
Writing is the supreme solace.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, on...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of ligh...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the ba...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN
In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who w...
W. RICHARD STEVENS
After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
W. RICHARD STEVENS
I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having ha...
W. RICHARD STEVENS
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA
I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA
The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. MARK FELT
I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. MARK FELT
I have to do this my way.
W. MARK FELT
I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
W. MARK FELT
I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. MARK FELT
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES
I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. SEBALD
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ...
W. G. SEBALD
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only whe...
W. G. SEBALD
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
W. G. SEBALD
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can enca...
W. G. SEBALD
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD
I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
W. G. SEBALD
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy ...
W. G. SEBALD
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
W. G. SEBALD
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You...
W. G. SEBALD
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; ther...
W. G. SEBALD
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. EUGENE SMITH
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. EUGENE SMITH
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. EUGENE SMITH
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day aft...
W. DANIEL HILLIS
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they'r...
W. DANIEL HILLIS
Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
W. D. RICHTER
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. RICHTER
I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never kn...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. Wh...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what&#...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to thei...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all th...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the lea...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having s...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and sme...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic ligh...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the ...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
My younger sister looks to me to provide her with advice on how to do her job better - though she...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection t...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet ever...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The ...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.
W. BRUCE CAMERON
My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just ca...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl - it's like living with a velo...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger ...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour per...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the part...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
In my opinion, it has never been proven that food even has calories. When I bite into a hamburger, I...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had i...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great ...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalt...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, B...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, ...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I&...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with h...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN