#eve

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#been #conformity #defects #does #education

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#air #amendment #authenticity #believe #believer

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#announced #call #dreaded #every #go

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#ah #beauty #day #every #every day

Arrange whatever pieces come your way. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#come #pieces #way #whatever #your

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#creating #finding #following #help #methods

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#attachment #corners #ever #fiction #four

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#back #behind #bright #bring #find

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#also #care #coming #dollars #enough