Wilson Quotes · Page 6

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any…

— A. Scott Berg

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

— H. L. Mencken

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

— Will Rogers

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the…

— Benjamin Carson

Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes…

— Emerson Spartz

Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division.…

— Patrick Fitzgerald

It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it,…

— Denzel Washington

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

— Tony Benn

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next…

— Stefan Edberg

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to…

— Robert Wilson

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,…

— Chuck Klosterman

I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins,…

— Bernard Beckett

There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination…

— Woody Harrelson

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

— Anonymous

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He…

— Denzel Washington

Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in…

— Frances Moore Lappé

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause…

— Al Sharpton

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of…

— Rory Block

Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular…

— Chuck Todd

I happen to think Ruth Wilson is jaw-droppingly brilliant.

— Finty Williams

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will…

— Matthew Arnold

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release…

— Henry Rollins

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way…

— Philip Glass