William Upski Wimsatt Quotes

#1. I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton

#2. Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

William Upski Wimsatt

#3. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Horace Greeley

#4. Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Nelson Mandela

#5. Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

#6. Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Harlan Coben

#7. Saving you is the only thing that will bring me peace for all the wrong I have done. That is my truth

Jillian Peery

#8. Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

William Upski Wimsatt

#9. So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

George Carlin