#cent

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#back #century #choice #fiction #follow

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. ↗

— Edward Witten

#anyone #beauty #century #einstein #equations

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bowl #central #comedy #could #creators

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#canceled #complacent #gets #show #soon

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#believe #century #come #half #i

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's. ↗

— Ryan White

#i #important #just #made #me

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#american people #around #clock #future #government

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bracket #capital #capital gains #child #create