This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
Man | Personality | Society | Society | Friends |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Little | People | Personality |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.
It is though we had wanted to add to the already existing proofs of God's Existence, a new and finally convincing one: the universal destruction that follows on assuming God's non-existence.
Lending | Personality | Race | Unity | Vision |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.
Joy | Personality |
Walter Pater, fully Walter Horatio Pater
For although its productions are painted poems, they belong to a sort of poetry which tells itself without an articulated story.
Walter J. Ong, fully Walter Jackson Ong
Homeric and the pre-Homeric Greeks, like oral peoples generally, practiced public speaking with great skill long before their skills were reduced to an "art", that is, to a body of sequentially organized, scientific principles which explained and abetted what verbal persuasion consisted in. Such an "art" is presented in Aristotle"s Art of Rhetoric. Oral cultures, as has been seen, can have no "arts" of this scientifically organized sort. The "art" of rhetoric, though concerned with oral speech, was, like other "arts," the product of writing.
Birth | Individual | Literature | Man | Personality | Regard | Sense | Sound | Speech | Words | World | Think |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
Chance | Kill | Personality | Obstacle |
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
[Charles Dickens was] the bravest man who ever lived. He fathered ten children before they became tax deductions.
Dreams | Ego | Personality | Witness |
Vivienne Westwood, born Vivienne Isabel Swire
You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes.
Beauty | People | Personality | Style | Will | Beauty | Think |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
Heart | Influence | Man | Men | Personality |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Absence | Personality | Simplicity | Temper |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape… You have not finished with it because you have read it, any more than friendship is ended because it is time to part. Life wells up and alters and adds. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered. So we look back upon essay after essay by Mr. Beerbohm, knowing that, come September or May, we shall sit down with them and talk.
Character | Personality |
O inimitable Enthusiasm! You successfully vanquish your enemy with the help of the powers derived from self-control and restraint.
Friend | Good | Personality |
The tongue is the armor of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.
Peace | Personality | Will | Happiness |
A teacher gives knowledge to his student and enlightens him.