#west

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #west




For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.


Mary A. Ward


#little #lived #newest #nine #north

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.


Hugo Weaving


#around #born #both #bristol #english

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.


Ai Weiwei


#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.


Ai Weiwei


#agree #became #china #competition #could

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.


Curt Weldon


#around #become #i #i think #mark

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.


Katharine Whitehorn


#get #i #lot #say #seen

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.


Bradley Whitford


#couple #far #fruition #gift #got

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.


Andy Williams


#because #clue #coast #doubt #east

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.


Rowan D. Williams


#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.


Tennessee Williams


#concept #delinquent #god #mythology #senile