Quotes

I don't think it is right to let OPEC run roughshod over the American consumer and we make no comment other than to say, 'Gosh, we have a lot on our plate.'

Ron Wyden

Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

Ron Wyden

Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.

Ron Wyden

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

William Wycherley

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

William Wycherley

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

William Wycherley

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Wycherley

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

William Wycherley

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

William Wycherley

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

William Wycherley

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

William Wycherley

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

William Wycherley

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

William Wycherley

You get lonely, and at certainpoints in your journey travelling companions can sort of join you. And I choose musicians as much because I really enjoy their company in the studio.

Robert Wyatt

Working with Syd Barrett's a piece of cake. I found him courteous and friendly. I can't think of anything wrong with him.

Robert Wyatt

With some of the black groups there was a terrific resonance with me. Not because they wanted to be anti-authority, but somehow the establishment didn't want them or accept them.

Robert Wyatt

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm recording, I'm very shy of asking people, in case they don't want to do it, or in case they don't get the idea that I had in my head, and I'm too embarrassed to not use it. Also, it's expensive. If you're going to use other people, you have to pay them.

Robert Wyatt