One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Baby...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, h...
WALTER M. MILLER JR Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?"
The monk nodded sol...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but n...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. [...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned a...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Sincere--that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a close...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Now a Dark Age seemed to be passing. For twelve centuries, a small flame of knowledge had been kept ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency o...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. ....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize th...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human cour...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. B...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it,...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questio...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. I don't think it's worth as much as an elementary school right now, but if it did we might consider ...
WALTER MILLER There are a lot of hoops you have to navigate through.
WALTER MILLER Forty-eight ports makes good sense for us, ... We have a couple of suites connected over fiber with ...
WALTER MILLER This is a great building. They have a great leader in Jim Pauley and they have a great staff. And fr...
WALTER MILLER It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and ...
WALTER MILLER Women want be treated like Queens but I can not think of many Kings who didn't have mistresses.
WALTER CROMARTIE JR I can't see my future but I can feel it. And it feels like it's going to be great!
WALTER CROMARTIE JR The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where...
WALTER WANGERIN JR. It takes one concept of imagination to create a whole world of reality.
WALTER CROMARTIE JR I love the thrill of creating a story from scratch. It's like creating a whole new world.
WALTER CROMARTIE JR Some Big Things Are Happening And My Vision For The Future Is So Clear It's Scary!
WALTER CROMARTIE JR It's so uplifting to see the image in your head of your future when you believe in yourself
WALTER CROMARTIE JR Imagine if your plans for the future aligned with God's plans. Wouldn't that be amazing
WALTER CROMARTIE JR Nothing Like A Good Read To Put You In A Good Mood!
WALTER CROMARTIE JR But the talk of dialogue involves the work of knowing, acknowledging the other, of shaping speech to...
WALTER WANGERIN JR. And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is ...
WALTER WANGERIN JR. I may not be one of the first to do whatever I'm doing but I promise to be one of the best.
WALTER CROMARTIE JR You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER M. SCHIRRA SR. You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be hero...
WALTER M. SCHIRRA, SR. Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine a...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not ...
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with it...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by c...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich ...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. The mystic prophets of the absolute cannot save us. Sustained by our history and traditions, we must...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surr...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they rea...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliabl...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which Cali...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is be...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who mak...
JOHN M. RICHARDSON, JR. When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who mak...
JOHN M. RICHARDSON JR. My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television c...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midwa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finess...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the Un...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new sk...
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are some...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future
JOHN M. RICHARDSON, JR. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everyth...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop s...
FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. The actual, long-term results of most big-government policies are opposite to the intended results.
ARCHIE M. RICHARDS, JR. Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new sk...
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. ...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirm...
M. ROBERT MULHOLLAND JR. Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order ...
M. ROBERT MULHOLLAND JR. Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not ...
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog.
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, t...
FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordea...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I lau...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. C...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifyin...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best...
FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be cla...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia....
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by th...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started wr...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it ...
FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
JR The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR Art is not meant to change the world.
JR I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR With humour, there is life.
JR When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR What we see changes who we are.
JR I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M -I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only...
WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause...
WALTER ANNENBERG I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
WALTER ANNENBERG I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
WALTER ANNENBERG Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu...
WALTER ANNENBERG God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
WALTER ANNENBERG You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
WALTER ANNENBERG What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
WALTER ANNENBERG I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG