#elves

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#business #decade #define #did #happy

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

Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#army #defend #occupying #our #ourselves

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#dad #did #everything #i #involved

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#against #aligning #allegiance #between #deaths

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#discover #experiences #experiment #father #had

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#audience members #early #frank #higher #higher level

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#basic #because #changed #does #just