#william

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.' ↗

— Ted Williams

#ever #goals #goes #greatest #hitter

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams. ↗

— Treat Williams

#full #i #i am #name #proud

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#elder #english #history #man #must

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#anything #before #blake #books #died

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#got #hall #hank #hank williams #i

Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#everybody #face #had #i #like

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#had #his #i #i think #limelight

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas. ↗

— Harry Melling

#bbc #brown #christmas #due #filming

if you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#dreams

In that case" Tessa said, feeling hot blood rise to her face,"I think I would prefer it if you called me by my Christian name, as you do with Miss Lovelace. Will look at her, slow and hard, then smiled. His blue eyes lit when he smiled. "Then you must do the same for me," he said. "Tessa." She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing if for the first time-the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath. Her own breath was very short when he said, softly, "Will." "Yes?" Amusement glittered his eyes. With a sort of horror Tessa realized that she had simply said his name for the sake of saying it; she hadn't actually had a question. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#william-herondale #smile