#ash

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#knows #man #only #present #true

My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out. ↗

— April Winchell

#day #every #every day #i #out

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#beauty #cherishing #grace #grief #hurt

The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#eyelashes #i #off #scene #takes

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings. ↗

— Alex Winter

#every #kind #movie #need #night

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#calls #chum #cigarette #dog #drag

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#distinguished #first #first time #had #honor

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack obama #captive #discourse #entered #fevers

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#commercial #crashing #ever #here #history

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#country #country music #during #had #i