"Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay." — Grant Wood, American painter, died February 12, 1942
"All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." — Grant Wood, American painter, born February 13, 1891
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." — John Wooden, American basketball player and coach, born October 14, 1910
"The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols." — James Woods, American actor, born April 18, 1947
"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in." — Virginia Woolf, English writer, born January 25, 1882
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end." — Virginia Woolf, English writer, born January 25, 1882
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." — Virginia Woolf, English writer, born January 25, 1882
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." — William Wordsworth, English poet, born April 7, 1770
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." — William Wordsworth, English poet, born April 7, 1770
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." — William Wordsworth, English poet, pens 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', April 15, 1802
"Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions." — Steve Wozniak, American computer programmer, born August 11, 1950