#gen

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#battle #intelligence #language #means #our

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? ↗

— James Wolcott

#asked #dark #did #get #here

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

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #different #entities #like #management

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#between #connection #financing #generally #result

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#american #generally #i #i think #look

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#charming #dominating #generous #i #me

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#kind #love #movie #see #want