#hea

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all. ↗

— Chely Wright

#buy #go #hear #hit #hope

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#contemporary #effective #generation #hopefully #i

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? ↗

— Steven Wright

#does #happen #headlights #light #spaceship

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving. ↗

— Steven Wright

#headlights #i #lights #like #looks

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? ↗

— Steven Wright

#heat #saw #wave #would #you

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. ↗

— Steven Wright

#hear #i #me #parentheses #you

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. ↗

— Steven Wright

#had #heads #i #museum #museums

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#beautiful #because #been #both #brilliant