#ears

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#first #first time #foot #had #hundred

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#daughter #distinguished #hon #john #lawyer

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#ball player #couple #football #football player #i

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! ↗

— Tom Wopat

#doing #hits #musicals #old #realize

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#deep #flower #give #lie #me

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. ↗

— Steven Wright

#bad #bad luck #busted #five #get

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#confess #fifty #fly #i #man

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#clinics #experience #help #i #legal