#col

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. ↗

— Justin Winsor

#becomes #books #collection #goes #good

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#came #charles #colony #first #name

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

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

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life! ↗

— Scott Wolf

#guess #hit #i #life #my life

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#approach #college #difficulties #find #our

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#collect #fine #hope #i #later

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology. ↗

— Alastair Wood

#even #pharmacology #place #premiere #then

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#adult #after #artist #better #christian

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left. ↗

— John Wooden

#believe #bend #coaching #colleges #down