Wolfson Quotes

#1. Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

David Mixner

#2. During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of Surgery with Sidney Wolfson. I quickly became fascinated by the project and continued working on it throughout my senior year.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#3. There is no marriage without engagement

Evan Wolfson

#4. A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

P.J. Wolfson

#6. A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy.

Debasish Mridha

#7. When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

Evan Wolfson

#8. What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

Evan Wolfson

#9. Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Jean Ashworth Bartle

#10. The elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

#11. Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.

P.J. Wolfson

#12. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Frederick The Great

#13. What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.

Jordan Wolfson

#14. I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars.

Alexa Vega

#15. We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

Narendra Modi

#16. We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.

Evan Wolfson

#18. Will you please stop peeking at me like that? This is degrading enough as it is."
"Did it ever occur to you," I said, with a sly smile and a wink, "that you're irresistibly handsome, I can't keep my eyes off of you?"
He threw his head back in a laugh. "Of course. I should have realized.

Lani Woodland

#19. I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

Jordan Wolfson

#20. The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

Jordan Wolfson

#21. After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.

P.J. Wolfson

#22. Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Evan Wolfson

#23. I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

Jordan Wolfson

#24. I am the big bad wolf, sweetheart. Now get your ass up to your room.

Jennifer Probst

#25. The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.

Oakley Hall

#26. I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.

Evan Wolfson