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Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. ↗

— Deryck Whibley

#anymore #dark #excuse #get #older

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. ↗

— James Mcneill Whistler

#great #incomplete #labour #often #picture

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. ↗

— James Whistler

#few #friendship #life #many #rare

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. ↗

— James Whistler

#apart #cannot #consider #english #folk

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ↗

— James Whistler

#artist #his #labor #paid #vision

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#carson #central #commits #dreams #east

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy. ↗

— Barry White

#babies #could #daddy #decided #dumped

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again. ↗

— Barry White

#got #i #jail #never #off

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them. ↗

— Barry White

#i #just #loved #low #put