Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've...
BRIAN WILSON Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having...
BRIAN WILSON The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving m...
BRIAN WILSON I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the wo...
BRIAN WILSON The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of t...
BRIAN WILSON It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The...
BRIAN WILSON I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a ...
BRIAN WILSON I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they pla...
BRIAN WILSON I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
BRIAN WILSON You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in ou...
BRIAN WILSON To be a great producer, music has to be a big part of your soul. And when it comes to making music, ...
BRIAN WILSON The eternal now, right?
BRIAN WILSON Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever.
BRIAN WILSON None of these kids have ever seen snow or been on a frozen pond, so everything is a first for them. ...
BRIAN WILSON Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant wh...
BRIAN WILSON We actually have more clear sunny days in mid-Oregon than they do in Southern Florida.
BRIAN WILSON Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector,
BRIAN WILSON I'm blessed with everything.A world to which a man can cling.So happy at times that I break out in t...
BRIAN WILSON My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant w...
BRIAN WILSON Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I kn...
BRIAN WILSON Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they ar...
BRIAN WILSON Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rha...
BRIAN WILSON You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough...
BRIAN WILSON I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing hi...
BRIAN WILSON intensely partisan Democratic district attorney.
BRIAN WILSON My state of being has been elevated, because I've been exercising, writing songs. I'm in a better fr...
BRIAN WILSON I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes ...
BRIAN WILSON My skills are musical, not lyrical.
BRIAN WILSON I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just th...
BRIAN WILSON My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figure...
BRIAN WILSON it doesn't look like that is going to happen by anything we've heard thus far.
BRIAN WILSON Megan is our new coach for the beginner program of the Piranhas, and she did a great job. This was o...
BRIAN WILSON I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
BRIAN WILSON I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not...
BRIAN WILSON The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
BRIAN WILSON My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that mea...
BRIAN WILSON About a year ago I had what I consider a very religious experience. I took LSD, a full dose of LSD, ...
BRIAN WILSON I'm blessed with everything.
A world to which a man can cling.
So happy at times that I brea...
BRIAN WILSON For me, making music has always been a very spiritual thing, and I think anybody who produces record...
BRIAN WILSON You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can&#...
BRIAN WILSON If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better...
BRIAN WILSON Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN A Nationalist is a defeated Republican.
BRIAN Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...
AUGUST WILSON I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're...
CHANDRA WILSON I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, an...
RUSSELL WILSON I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif...
AUGUST WILSON I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
RAINN WILSON You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.
SLOAN WILSON I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ...
TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,...
TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden...
TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what...
TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials...
TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai...
TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an...
TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years...
TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki...
TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ...
TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I...
TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec...
TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int...
TAYLOR WILSON I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea...
TAYLOR WILSON I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overse...
RAINN WILSON I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that...
RAINN WILSON The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is t...
RAINN WILSON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
RAINN WILSON I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking...
RAINN WILSON I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to...
RAINN WILSON Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
RAINN WILSON I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
RAINN WILSON I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read b...
RAINN WILSON I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm hap...
RAINN WILSON I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character ...
RAINN WILSON And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to ...
RAINN WILSON There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And th...
RAINN WILSON Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then ju...
RAINN WILSON I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talkin...
RAINN WILSON Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why ...
RAINN WILSON Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
RAINN WILSON My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
RAINN WILSON The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sac...
RAINN WILSON Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
RAINN WILSON There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model Unite...
RAINN WILSON Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
RAINN WILSON The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the wor...
RAINN WILSON It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
WOODROW WILSON I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSON If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to disco...
WOODROW WILSON A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
WOODROW WILSON The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice und...
WOODROW WILSON Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
WOODROW WILSON If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
EARL WILSON I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.
WILSON MIZNER The first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
WILSON MIZNER The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
WILSON MIZNER A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
WILSON MIZNER All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it bec...
WILSON MIZNER I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
WILSON MIZNER There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
WILSON MIZNER Art is science made clear.
WILSON MIZNER In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
WILSON MIZNER Failure has gone to his head.
WILSON MIZNER To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
WILSON MIZNER Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
WILSON MIZNER You sparkle with larceny.
WILSON MIZNER It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
WILSON MIZNER To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
WILSON MIZNER Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
WILSON MIZNER Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
WILSON MIZNER What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organi...
WOODROW WILSON Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and rout...
FRED WILSON We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON I don't think I could ever go skinny. I just don't think, physiologically, that is going to ...
REBEL WILSON Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You h...
CHANDRA WILSON I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with peop...
OWEN WILSON I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
OWEN WILSON Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
OWEN WILSON It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the ti...
OWEN WILSON You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, ...
OWEN WILSON I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
OWEN WILSON If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
PATRICK WILSON I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme ...
PATRICK WILSON You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
PATRICK WILSON If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because t...
PATRICK WILSON A heroic nature is very Greek.
PATRICK WILSON I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
PATRICK WILSON I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's i...
PATRICK WILSON In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
PATRICK WILSON I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
PATRICK WILSON There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
PATRICK WILSON Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
PATRICK WILSON I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
PATRICK WILSON I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to ...
PATRICK WILSON There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion -...
PATRICK WILSON For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
PATRICK WILSON The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
PATRICK WILSON If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for ...
PATRICK WILSON I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She e...
PATRICK WILSON There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
PATRICK WILSON When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing...
PATRICK WILSON I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
PATRICK WILSON If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-...
PATRICK WILSON The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When y...
PATRICK WILSON I'm an early-morning owl.
PATRICK WILSON I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact t...
WOODROW WILSON But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every bu...
LANFORD WILSON I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
LANFORD WILSON I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black American...
AUGUST WILSON I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes...
MARA WILSON I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, a...
MARA WILSON I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seem...
MARA WILSON Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at leas...
MARA WILSON Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in th...
MARA WILSON If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And ...
MARA WILSON 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
MARA WILSON No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
MARA WILSON Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
MARA WILSON The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were ...
MARA WILSON The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Eve...
MARA WILSON Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're tal...
MARA WILSON 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to wa...
MARA WILSON I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppos...
MARA WILSON