#her

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#been #bugging #bugs #counter-intelligence #devices

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#certain #fixed #haunting #here #movement

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#find #getting #i #imposing #judgements

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth. ↗

— Dave Willis

#cds #couple #days #drop #go

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. ↗

— Angus Wilson

#heroism #kind #limited #most #opportunities

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#bad idea #band #each #get #idea

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. ↗

— August Wilson

#body needs #hand #laughter #love #need

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water. ↗

— Carl Wilson

#band #downs #fair #fair share #getting

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#come #designer #exposed #going #handy