#ay

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#consumer #every #given #himself #individual

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#business #devastating #embellish #eradicated #our

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asked #hard #interviewed #media #politicians

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean? ↗

— Bob Woodward

#even #i #insider #know #like

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything? ↗

— Bob Woodward

#around #culture #garbage #out #people

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aftermath #another #book #could #done

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clear #dollars #grand #grand jury #hear

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#ask #courage #her #life #means

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brain #buried #buzzing #diving #humming

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#curtain #draw #essay #good #must