#dl

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however. ↗

— Chris Ware

#anything #around #bugs #cartoonist #cycle

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#everything #history #idle #long #might

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#any #because #belongs #done #efforts

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. ↗

— Roger Waters

#arab #background #based #broad #drums

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#bad guys #gladly #guys #i #shoot

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious. ↗

— Emily Watson

#did #get #go #had #hardly

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. ↗

— James D. Watson

#apologise #continent #drawn #genetically #i

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#change #everything #hardly #hotel #hotel room