[What I encountered in producing] Race to the Moon ... It was a moment that was depthless and inexpressible.


William Styron

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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES
I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES