#ere

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#different #goal #i #just #keep

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#clear #even #flight #free #get

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#breaks #get #instead #tragedy #tree

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#here #i #know #order #ourselves

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#common #interpret #language #mankind #means

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#augustine #being #celebrated #ceremony #church

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#few #pile #reach #them #trusted

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

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

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