#bout

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world! ↗

— Shaun White

#compete #everyone #games #half #i

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

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#analysis #bother #does #familiar #familiar things

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#absolutely #both #charm #deception #life

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #ceased #emotions #love #people

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #infinitely #mean #other #people

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#centuries #college #during #had #i

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#also #eight #freedom #i #morning

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