William Pitt Amherst Quotes

“In the bad old days there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.”

“Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.”

“I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.”

“My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.”

“One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.”

“I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.”

“My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.”

“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!”

“I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.”

“I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.”