#hem

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#above #apart #flaws #gets #great

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#brings #depend #good #good art #i

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#i #legs #many #more #myself

When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #buy #chocolates #comfort #comfort food

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#attacked #call #called #coke #cops

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#found #go #hours #i #juvenile

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#beautiful #brilliant #davis #direction #else

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do. ↗

— John Warner

#actually #allergy #believe #cent #five

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#asking #been #community-based #doing #down