It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the... →
Tom Wolfe
The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment... →
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to... →
James Wolfensohn
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are... →
Mary Wollstonecraft
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view... →
Roy Wood
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is... →
George Edward Woodberry
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing... →
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language... →
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the... →