#age

Style is the image of character. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#image #style

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#aged #any #brilliant #business #death

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#awfully #cry #going #honey #howl

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#better #find #homage #led #led zeppelin

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward