#arc

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

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun. ↗

— Jack White

#everyday #everyday people #fun #i #i think

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#irony #neither #sarcasm

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#any #change #climate #climate change #combined

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#come #false #government #medical #only

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#blood #bone #bone marrow #cell #cell research

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #equally #mob #monarch #necessity

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#asthma #better #coming #help #lot

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#become #clouds #falling #grabbing #like