Wreck-It Ralph
Quotes·Quotations by Wreck-It Ralph
¶ And you're adorable!
¶ It's hard to love your job, when no one else seems to like you for doing it...
Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph
Quotes·Quotations by Wreck-It Ralph
¶ And you're adorable!
¶ It's hard to love your job, when no one else seems to like you for doing it...
Tiger Woods (1975- )
Tiger Woods (1975- )
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975)[4][5] is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years according to Forbes.
Woods turned professional in 1996, and by April 1997 he had already won his first major, the 1997 Masters in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 264 weeks from August 1999 to September 2004 and 281 weeks from June 2005 to October 2010 as world number one. From December 2009 to early April 2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were revealed by several different women, through many worldwide media sources.[6] This was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011.[7][8] He ended a career-long winless streak of 107 weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011.[8] After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25, 2013, he ascended to the No.1 Ranking once again.
Woods has broken numerous golf records. He has been world number one for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any other golfer. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times,[9] the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons. He has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 79 PGA Tour events, second all time behind Sam Snead.[10] He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999. Woods is the only golfer to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship.
Quotes·Quotations by Tiger Woods
Attitudes
¶ If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.
References
[1]^ This is calculated by adding Woods' 79 PGA Tour victories, 8 regular European Tour titles, 2 Japan Tour wins, 1 Asian Tour crown, and the 16 other wins in his career.
[2]^ These are the 14 majors, 18 WGC events, and his eight tour wins.
[3]^ 2009 European Tour Official Guide Section 4 Page 577 PDF 21[dead link]. European Tour. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
[4]^ Sounes, Howard (2004). The Wicked Game: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Story of Modern Golf. Harper Collins. pp. 120–121, 293. ISBN 0-06-051386-1.
[5]^ Divorce decree August 23, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
[6]^ a b c Dahlberg, Tim (December 12, 2009). "Two weeks that shattered the legend of Tiger Woods". Fox News. Associated Press. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
[7]^ "Westwood becomes world number one". BBC News. October 31, 2010.
[8]^ a b c d "Tiger Woods moves to 50th in rankings". ESPN. November 13, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
[9]^ Kelley, Brent (October 20, 2009). "Woods Clinches PGA Player of the Year Award". About.com: Golf. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
[10]^ "Tracking Tiger". NBC Sports. Retrieved June 3, 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_woods
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston and H. G. Peter. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986.
Wonder Woman is a warrior Princess of the Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) and was created by Marston, an American, as a "distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men." Known in her homeland as Diana of Themyscira, her powers include superhuman strength, flight (even though the original Wonder Woman did not have this ability), super-speed, super-stamina, and super-agility. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat and in the art of tactical warfare. She also possesses animal-like cunning skills and a natural rapport with animals, which has been presented as an actual ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. She uses her Lasso of Truth, which forces those bound by it to tell the truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves as a projectile, and, in some stories, an invisible airplane.
Created during World War II, the character was initially depicted fighting the Axis military forces, as well as an assortment of supervillains. In later decades, some writers maintained the World War II setting, with many of its themes and story arcs, while others updated the series to reflect the present day. Wonder Woman has also regularly appeared in comic books featuring the superhero teams Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960). Arguably the most popular and iconic female superhero in comics, Wonder Woman is also considered a feminist icon. She was named the 20th greatest comic book character by Empire magazine. She was ranked sixth in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
In addition to the comics, the character has appeared in other media; most notably, the 1975–1979 Wonder Woman TV series starring Lynda Carter, as well as animated series such as the Super Friends and Justice League. Although a number of attempts have been made to adapt the character to live-action film, none has yet emerged from development hell. An animated film was released in 2009, with Keri Russell voicing the title role. In 2011, Adrianne Palicki starred in a failed pilot for a would-be series about the character.
In May 2011, Wonder Woman placed fifth on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time.
Quotes·Quotations by Wonder Woman
Advice
¶ A new journey to be started. A new promise to be fulfilled. A new page to be written. Go forth unto this waiting world with pen in hand, all you young scribes, the open book awaits. Be creative. Be adventurous. Be original. And above all else, be young. For youth is your greatest weapon, your greatest tool. Use it wisely. [Wonder Woman, # 62 by George Perez, the scene where Vanessa Kapatelis graduates and Diana is hugging her]
Help
¶ Please take my hand. I give it to you as a gesture of friendship and love, and of faith freely given. I give you my hand and welcome you into my dream. [Wonder Woman #167]
Hero
¶ Go in peace my daughter. And remember that, in a world of ordinary mortals, you are a Wonder Woman. [Queen Hippolyta, Wonder Woman]
¶ I am Diana, Princess of the Amazons! I won't be denied! [Justice League, Paradise Lost]
¶ If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system, to help just one woman, man or child…I’m willing to accept the consequences. [Wonder Woman #170]
¶ Of all people, you know who I am…who the world needs me to be. I’m Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman, Infinite Crisis #1]
Love
¶ What was it that John Lennon said? ‘Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.’ Let it grow already, and quit trying to legislate it! [Wonder Woman, #200]
Men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_woman
Naomi Wolf (1962- )
Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by ***
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
Beaumont and Fletcher
Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont (1584 – March 6 1616) and John Fletcher (baptized 29 December 1579 - died in August 1625), who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I. There collaboration was so well regarded that works individually authored by either are sometimes errantly reported as having been by the collaboration. These include later collaborations by Fletcher with Nathan Field and Philip Massinger.
Action
@ Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beaumont_and_Fletcher
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)
William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902– September 3, 2002) was a businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.
Quotes·Quotation
Attitude
¶ There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Clement_Stone
Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)
Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)
Quotes·Quotation by Wizard
Peter Boyle as Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)
¶ A man takes a job, you know, and that job becomes what he is.
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children’s verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
The hyphens in the character's name were later dropped when The Walt Disney Company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Disney features that became one of its most successful franchises.
The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on the New York Times Best Seller List.
In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith and Jim Cummings in English, Yevgeny Leonov in Russian, and Shun Yashiro and Sukekiyo Kameyama in Japanese.
Quotes·Quotation by Winnie the Pooh
Journey
¶ Promise you will never forget me, because if I thought you would, I would never leave.
Life
¶ If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_the_Pooh
Wendell Berry (1934- )
Wendell Berry (1934- )
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Quotes·Quotations by Wendell Berry
Past
¶ The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical Road Show.
Quotes·Quotations by Wilson Mizner
Education
¶ I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Mizner
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