#anne

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck. ↗

— David Walliams

#before #blair #channel #fan #great

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#alteration #american #american revolution #animated #annihilated

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#always #anxious #channel #creative #energy

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#dance #energy #excited #into #learn

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind. ↗

— Tom Watson

#carefully #challenges #combines #course #discipline

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#arena #humanness #need #out #people

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#away #especially #get #manners #need

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

#beings #degree #due #effectively #equal

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#because #bored #channels #death #early

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#banned #carried #chinese #danced #hundreds