#che

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. ↗

— James Wolcott

#before #collective #culture #enriches #iconography

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bin #bleached #clan #diversion #endless

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

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#really #reporters #researchers #television

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#all day #chekhov #could #day #go

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#better #certain #different #different things #guitar

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#compassion #fearlessness #flower #greatest #love

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way. ↗

— Alastair Wood

#bureaucracy #clinical #facilitate #getting #i

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#before #drinks #fool #man #reaches

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#drink #eat #fair #fast #fast lane