Quotations

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

— Richard Wright, American poet, died November 28, 1960

"A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith."

— Richard Wurmbrand, Christian minister, died February 17, 2001

"Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father’s care."

— Richard Wurmbrand, Christian minister, born March 24, 1909

"Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar."

— Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter, died January 16, 2009

"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."

— Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter, born July 12, 1917

"I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it."

— Tammy Wynette, American singer, born May 5, 1942

"If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."

— Swami X, American boardwalk performer, died August 29, 2015

"Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer."

— Swami X, American boardwalk performer, born Dec 17, 1914

"I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes."

— Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Nobel Prize laureate, born 1955

"As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night."

— Yu Xinhua, Chinese poet, born March 22, 1976

"My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of."

— Yu Xinhua, Chinese poet, born March 22, 1976

"When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way."

— Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese biologist, Nobel Prize laureate, born September 4, 1962

"Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely."

— Weird Al Yankovic, American comedian, born 1959

"Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts."

— Yanni, Greek-American composer, (Chameleon), born November 14, 1954