Sloan Wilson Quotes

#1. Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral

Daniel C. Dennett

#2. Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

Roscoe Conkling

#3. It doesn't really matter. Here goes nothing. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Sloan Wilson

#4. The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Sloan Wilson

#5. A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

Sloan Wilson

#6. I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be back home in front of all of you capitalist pigs.

Conan O'Brien

#7. Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Kimberly Morgan

#8. I could get a job in an advertising agency. I'll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness.

Sloan Wilson

#9. Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

David Rakoff

#10. It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid.

David Sloan Wilson

#11. A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work.

Sloan Wilson

#13. Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sloan Wilson

#14. Believe me, I want you to have a good time,' he said gently, 'but people who have that primarily in mind rarely accomplish it.

Sloan Wilson

#15. Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#16. I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

Emraan Hashmi

#17. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Sloan Wilson

#18. An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Anthony Trollope

#19. You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

Sloan Wilson

#20. When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

Sloan Wilson

#21. I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

Sloan Wilson

#22. How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.

Sloan Wilson

#23. So High,
So Low,
So Many Things to Know

Vernor Vinge

#24. You don't really know much until you get to be 70.

Sloan Wilson

#25. When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Sloan Wilson

#26. The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up.

Nabil N. Jamal

#27. Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.

Sloan Wilson

#28. Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

David Sloan Wilson

#29. ,but at least there were books. Books were escape.

Stephen King

#30. People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore.

Sloan Wilson

#31. You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.

Sloan Wilson

#32. The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

Sloan Wilson

#33. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.

Sloan Wilson