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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#did #go #had #homestead #hunting

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#career #cleaning #dishes #had #i

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#brother #dad #day #first #goal

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#having #home #safe #were #wish

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad. ↗

— John Wozniak

#bad #black #black or white #cause #character

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#express #externals #fashion #lightening #lumber

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#dream #ever #every #had #i

Atari is a very sad story. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#sad #sad story #story #very

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#had #i #laid #like #made

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#engineering #exceptional #focus #had #head