#elle

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#elizabeth #elizabeth i #giving #had #her

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cognitive #even #holds #intellectual #key

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. ↗

— Terri Windling

#folklore #galleries #go #masters #need

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. ↗

— Terri Windling

#because #being #best #editor #editorial

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#deterrent #excellence #racism #sexism

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#best #deterrent #excellence #how #i

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#compelled #employ #had #like #many

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack obama #captive #discourse #entered #fevers