#dead

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#alone #being #dead #eerie #into

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#creatures #dead #dependent #land #leading

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#earnest #fun #funny #humor #only

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead. ↗

— April Winchell

#i #ill #know #speak #supposed

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. ↗

— April Winchell

#children #christmas #dead #everything #fit

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#dead #got #home #i #i was born

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#belief #dead #who #world

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#group #i #like #long #musicians

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#allowing #also #borders #cannot #control