Top 57 Wiley Quotes
#1. Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are ... well ... they aren't mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.
Julie Newmar
#2. This is the South and we have our own ways of doing things down here. We're not going to sit back in silence while people like Wiley ram their homosexuality down our throats."
"God knows I ain't about to put my homosexuality in your mouth, Billy," I said.
Nick Wilgus
#3. She thought the best way to feed her child was to use a slingshot. - Wiley Cantrell
Nick Wilgus
#4. Better feed him more beans or you're going to have a midget on your hands, Wiley," he said. "It's bad enough to be deaf, but to be a deaf midget ... oh God, help us. I had a dog like that once.
Nick Wilgus
#5. Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus,' wrote Wiley. 'Unless you find a profit in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#6. If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.
Wiley Wiggins
#7. It was like Mama was lost in the desert and had gotten so thirsty that she was willing to see anything that might make her feel better about being lost.
Wiley Cash
#8. I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
William Wiley
#9. My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.
Wiley Wiggins
#10. All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.
William Wiley
#11. And I can tell you God makes us how he needs us to be.
Wiley Cash
#12. I'd always thought of him as one of those fat catfish swimming in the Catawba River, trudging along the bottom with his belly in the mud, his mouth open, feeding on whatever he came across.
Wiley Cash
#13. This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.
Kehinde Wiley
#14. Be thankful that she knows your name and be careful never to forget hers.
Rachel Wiley
#15. Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.
Wiley Miller
#16. I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
William Wiley
#17. The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.
Wiley Drake
#18. But some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say.
Wiley Cash
#19. It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
William Wiley
#20. The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
William Wiley
#21. I ain't the kind o' person who turns up her nose at what's served her, just cause it ain't something else. I ate what the Almighty served me, and filled it up just fine. Eat what you're served, child, and season it any way you like. You do that and you'll get along all right.
Melissa Wiley
#22. The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.
Kehinde Wiley
#23. When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
Samira Wiley
#24. I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.
Kehinde Wiley
#25. Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.
Ralph Wiley
#26. All of the diseases that modern medicine declares war on never seem to touch any of those ninety-year-old farmers who have lived on bacon and eggs and butter for almost a century. The media, following current low-fat medical wisdom, calls that a paradox. We don't.
T.S. Wiley
#27. Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22)
Wiley Drake
#28. Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
Wiley Blount Rutledge
#29. Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
Wiley Miller
#30. Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
Charles Wiley
#32. I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.
Samira Wiley
#33. You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
William T. Wiley
#34. I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
Samira Wiley
#35. [Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth. - THOMAS WOLFE, YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
Wiley Cash
#36. I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
Samira Wiley
#37. The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
Samira Wiley
#38. That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.
Kehinde Wiley
#39. It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.
Wiley Cash
#40. Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!
William T. Wiley
#41. Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
William Wiley
#42. I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
Kehinde Wiley
#43. I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.
Kehinde Wiley
#44. I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
William Wiley
#45. It was expected that men's hands would be good and calloused by reins and shovels and the hands of other men whose lives they knew by the tough skin of their handshakes.
Wiley Cash
#46. It was like a tree had sprung up between them, a tree that was just too thick to throw their arms around.
Wiley Cash
#47. I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
Samira Wiley
#48. You can't make sense of everything," she said. "that ain't the job of man.
Wiley Cash
#49. I'm ready to deal with somebody else's baggage. I'm sick of mine.
Wiley Wiggins
#50. I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.
Wiley Cash
#51. We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
William Wiley
#52. A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.
Ralph Wiley
#53. I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
William Wiley
#54. Persecute them ... Let them be put to shame and perish ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Wiley Drake
#55. But since then I've learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.
Wiley Cash
#56. I told her that the plots were all the same, and that the style was pretty terrible. She would answer, 'Well, if it is a good plot, it will stand being read over a good many times, and the style doesn't matter as long as you can understand what the characters are doing.
John Wiley Jr.
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