Quotes About Wilson

Because it's such a silly girly

They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless—but on which side of the border?

You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11", you know, and playing in the National Football League.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

If the Big Bang actually occurred, scientists believed that we should see slight variations (or ripples) in the temperature of the cosmic background radiation that Penzias and Wilson had discovered.

A chastened Wilson wrote a letter of apology on the official stationery of the New Jersey executive mansion, expressing himself "very much mortified" by his mistake.

Without prior notice to the other powers or even to the State Department officials concerned with the consortium, Wilson proceeded to inform the press that the American group in the consortium would no longer have the support of the government.

While debate raged over the size of an army (it was settled at half of Wilson's idea) and the proper place of the United States on the world stage (the U.S. Senate decided that American security was better preserved by two oceans than a seat in the League of Nations),

Wilson was not only antiblack; he was also far and away our most nativist president, repeatedly questioning the loyalty of those he called "hyphenated Americans." "Any man who carries a hyphen about with him," said Wilson, "carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready."27 The American people responded to Wilson's

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Mr. Shaw urges the adoption of a new alphabet with forty-two characters (see his preface to Wilson's The Miraculous Birth of Language, Philosophical Library, New York). Such an alphabet would approximate the phonetic perfection of the Sanskrit, whose use of fifty letters prevents mispronunciations.

when Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

bark, she was easing her way down.

If there were any wild hogs around, he could scare the daylights out of them with his deep voice.

The Treaty of Guarantee was signed accordingly by Wilson and Lloyd George and Clemenceau. The United States Senate refused to ratify the treaty. They repudiated President Wilson's signature. And we, who had deferred so much to his opinions and wishes in all this business of peace-making, were told without much ceremony that we ought to be better informed about the American Constitution.

Already Ex-President Roosevelt had brutally proclaimed, 'Our Allies and our enemies and Mr. Wilson himself should all understand that Mr. Wilson has no authority whatever to speak for the American people at this time.

What did he make of the news that President Wilson was sending American troops to France?

People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I ripped it off from that old movie They Live. You remember They Live, with the glasses?" I shrug, and he shakes his head. "Nobody watches the classics anymore.

No matter how crazy it seems, the world always operates by the rules. Those rules can be understood, even if it doesn't seem like it at first.

english So much to say, so little time. Miss Wilson kept interrupting our chat with her so-called love of Shakespeare. For goodness' sake. Hers is not the love that dares not speak its name, hers is the love that bangs on and on about Billy. It's all "What ho, my lord" and "Oh look, here comes MacBeth talking total bollocks.