#ate

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #signifies #skateboarding #start #thing

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #candidate #conservatives #democrats #economy

Man blindly works the will of fate. ↗

— Christoph Martin Wieland

#fate #man #will #works

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#date #greeks #proofs #still #today

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#i #more #motivate #much #myself

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#design #i #i always #opinionated #plan

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#appreciate #away #blow #blues #i

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. ↗

— Edward Witten

#basic #basic things #beauty #different #different shapes

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

#carrying #digital #flame #get #how