#ally

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure? ↗

— Chely Wright

#how #i #know #life #many

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#attached #because #biologically #else #everybody

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit. ↗

— Joe Wright

#civilian #exactly #film #fit #generally

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. ↗

— Joe Wright

#afterwards #choices #come #feeling #generally

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#another #belief #believe #countries #dangerous

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#ample #been #bridge #controversy #entire

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#attacked #culture #egypt #fact #feelings

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

#command #considered #could #estimate #first

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. ↗

— Steven Wright

#child #eventually #had #i #kid