Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can...
BILL VIOLA Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fas...
BILL VIOLA My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's word...
BILL VIOLA In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-mak...
BILL VIOLA Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. N...
BILL VIOLA The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think...
BILL VIOLA In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in ...
BILL VIOLA There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I ...
BILL VIOLA Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings...
BILL VIOLA I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
BILL VIOLA When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experienc...
BILL VIOLA The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precl...
BILL VIOLA I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies suc...
BILL VIOLA Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to ...
BILL VIOLA You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any w...
BILL VIOLA The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful ...
BILL VIOLA I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression...
BILL VIOLA One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure ...
BILL VIOLA A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place ...
BILL VIOLA When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
BILL VIOLA Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no...
BILL VIOLA A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes ...
BILL VIOLA The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circ...
BILL VIOLA If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Eart...
BILL VIOLA This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
BILL VIOLA There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other s...
BILL VIOLA Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I'...
VIOLA DAVIS Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment fre...
VIOLA SPOLIN There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he find...
VIOLA SPOLIN The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Eve...
VIOLA SPOLIN We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true fo...
VIOLA SPOLIN I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my ...
VIOLA DAVIS In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what wou...
VIOLA DAVIS Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A
SAIRA VIOLA The Shooting Star Charm

To Be Lucky in Love, You Must First Believe in Miracles
VIOLA SHIPMAN And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did e...
VIOLA DAVIS Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's...
VIOLA DAVIS T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes un...
SAIRA VIOLA Within the triune God we discover mutual love, mutual fellowship, mutual dependence, mutual honor, m...
FRANK VIOLA Poncho was in a red mood slanging with rage and needed to cook himself out of it , while shoving han...
SAIRA VIOLA The Dragonfly Charm

Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortu...
VIOLA SHIPMAN I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilo...
VIOLA DAVIS The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in s...
VIOLA SHIPMAN The Kite Charm

For A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child
VIOLA SHIPMAN The Snowflake Charm

Be As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions
VIOLA SHIPMAN The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared
VIOLA SHIPMAN The Mustard Seed Charm

With Faith As Small As A Mustard Seed, Then You Can Move Mountains...
VIOLA SHIPMAN With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars ba...
SAIRA VIOLA Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.
SAIRA VIOLA A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.
SAIRA VIOLA It's a growing phenomenon, I'll tell you that.
LINDA VIOLA We're all prostitutes sir we're all selling ourselves for something
SAIRA VIOLA ..... this isn't some LA country rock jam reminiscing on the pyschtotropic pot pansies of Haight Ash...
SAIRA VIOLA Non lo capiva nessuno che sono le parole che sono contrarie alla vita, ti nascono in testa, te le co...
VIOLA DI GRADO Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United State...
BILL ENGVALL People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
BILL COSBY If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
BILL COSBY Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituari...
BILL COSBY Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: e...
BILL COSBY Gray hair is God's graffiti.
BILL COSBY A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
BILL COSBY If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
BILL COSBY Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
BILL GOLDBERG I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disrega...
BILL FLORES One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief...
BILL MAHER William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was...
BILL DEDMAN The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
BILL WHEELER If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
BILL WATTERSON I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and tur...
BILL WATTERSON Enemy fighters at two o'clock!Roger. What should I do until then?
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Black holes are where God divided by zero.
BILL WATTERSON The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried ...
BILL WATTERSON I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.
BILL HADER We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.
BILL EVANS After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detec...
BILL DEDMAN There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in m...
BILL DEDMAN In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife...
BILL KREUTZMANN The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...
BILL GATES