#earl

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#being #early #happy #i #made

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

#back #children #considered #early #early age

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? ↗

— Dick Wolf

#air #department #early #focus #focus groups

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #bring #completion #course #during

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

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#clearly #love #love is #man #woman

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. ↗

— George Woodcock

#been #better #contemporaries #early #early thirties

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. ↗

— George Woodcock

#called #discipline #early #english #english school

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around. ↗

— John Wooden

#away #eyesight #going #going away #good