#ape

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#every #excellent #game #hopefully #i

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#beholder #eye #eye of the beholder #landscape #moves

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. ↗

— William Wiley

#also #going #i #i see #just

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#got #license #lie #new #new york

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all. ↗

— Esther Williams

#going #had #i #keep #life

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'. ↗

— Ian Williams

#cats #cow #filming #get #go

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#first #get #i #i write #myself

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#agree #beliefs #better #bring #context

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#message #music #shape #silence