| William Steig |  I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
William Steig |
| William Strunk, Jr. | A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr. |
| William Strunk, Jr. | Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr. |
| William Vickrey | There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
William Vickrey |
| William Warburton | Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
William Warburton |
| William Wiley | 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 |
| Willie Mays | The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
Willie Mays |
| Willie Stargell | I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
Willie Stargell |
| Willie Tyler | The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Willie Tyler |
| Wilt Chamberlain | But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
Wilt Chamberlain |
| Winston Graham | I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
Winston Graham |
| wishes | Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason, so no matter on what ground he comes, we must accept his wishes. |
| Wolf Reik | We have no reason to think that human cloning will not work - it works in primates - but it may take many, many attempts.
Wolf Reik |
| wrath | Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William R. Alger
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| Wynton Marsalis | What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
Wynton Marsalis |
| Yakov Smirnoff | In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Yakov Smirnoff |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| Yves Tanguy | The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy |
| Zac Hanson | The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
Zac Hanson |
