Untamable Willie Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books. — Andrew Smith

I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad. — John James Cowperthwaite

I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did the music thing. My dad had the keys to the church, so we would go over there and jam. So I just want my kids to have fun the right way. I want their type of trouble to be, like, "Aw, Dad, I locked the keys in the car." I don't want to hear about, "Oh, my friend just got shot." — Fetty Wap

We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price — Victor Suarez Melendez

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city. — Laini Taylor

Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno — Jonathan Lethem

No-one speaks. No-one moves ( ... ). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells — Sarah Waters

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. — Boris Yeltsin

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time. — Howard Zinn

A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket. — Bill Dedman

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. — William Graham Sumner

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. — Leo Tolstoy

I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused. — William Joyce