#ants

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#access #always #been #build #direct

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#bass player #because #everyone #found #guitar

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#dread #emigrants #held #indians #mexican

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them. ↗

— Shaun White

#been #guy #i #play #sports

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acquire #animal #become #god #himself

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#about #certain #certain extent #certainly #come

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#burdened #feel #give #hard #i

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #only #other #tragedies #two