#cap

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

#could #david #everyone #extraordinary #figure

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

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role. ↗

— Girma Woldegiorgis

#doubt #farmers #financial #government #greater

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#believe #capability #china #even #fear

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#capabilities #expand #fewest #least #opportunities

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#because #capable #country #country music #i

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. ↗

— John Wooden

#becoming #best #capable #did #direct

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. ↗

— John Wooden

#become #becoming #best #capable #comes

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. ↗

— John Wooden

#best #capable #direct #direct result #effort