Top 161 William Quotes

I sang ‘O Holy Night’ with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake – a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music.

Actually William wasn’t there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn’t there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.

William Regal is an obvious influence, as is Fit Finlay – you can see that in my style of wrestling – but I try not to copy too much of what I see now as that was part of my problem early on.

If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America’s spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what’s now the CIA.

My favourite book in the world is ‘Neuromancer’ by William Gibson.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He’s the most incredible scene partner I’ve ever had.

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, ‘Joyland.’ He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

I don’t think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread – Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the ‘King James Bible.’

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who’ve become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master’s thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn’t find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn’t read Faulkner.

Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He’s a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.

There’s no one quite like William – I bet he’s really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.

I began my thesis research at Harvard by working with a team in the laboratory of William N. Lipscomb, a Nobel chemistry Laureate, in 1976, on the structure of carboxypeptidase A. I did postdoctoral studies with David Blow at the MRC lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge studying chymotrypsin.

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O’Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh… was the place where Champagne Music was born.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in ‘Burke’s Peerage.’ My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William – for now.

It’s obviously nerve-wracking, because I don’t know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I’m willing to learn quickly and work hard.

I can’t change overnight into a serious literary author. You can’t compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton.

In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds, and I exposed that. And that led to his dismissal by President Clinton.

I got to know the cast pretty well. Not so much Leonard Nimoy, I got to know William Shatner pretty well. They are a pretty good gang. The production company that made ‘Star Trek’ is the kind of production company that likes to have fun.

William Holden and I weren’t just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

I’d love Shakey Bill to tell me a story – I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn’t he?

It’s been Bill for so long people think my name is William, but it’s not, it’s Mark.

Prince William is absolutely adorable.

Liberal members of Congress and their media allies are furious with Attorney General William Barr because he blew up the Mueller report smear job before it was out of the box.

Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.

In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.

Some of the best advice I’ve gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I’ve really learned a lot from both of them.

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He’s great at playing that ‘I’m the only one sane in the world’ character.

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.

I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood – I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in ‘The Crucible.’ I played John Proctor.

For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley’s famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.

I’d love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

I actually own works of art I’ve always wanted to own – I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met him in L.A.; later, he agreed to shoot the cover for my album ‘Call Me Irresponsible’ for free. I was so fat at the time, and he made me look as good as I possibly could.

My son William is only nine but he’s had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner’s early novels.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Republicans can nominate bad Justices, too. Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, David Souter… the list goes on.

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

Tom Hanks, who starred in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner’s haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.

It’s so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He’s putting his back into it – and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.