#irs

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.' ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#doing #first #get #here #kid

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#because #become #brilliant #doing #done

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first. ↗

— Bridgette Wilson

#career #doing #family #first #happiest

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago. ↗

— Carl Wilson

#ago #associate #avid #become #blogs

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canada #development #england #enterprise #especially

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#beach boys #day #exist #i #i can

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#actually #almost #biologists #due #evolution

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#birthday #box #childhood #cracker #ever

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#american people #blood #compared #first #humanity

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#being #comes #crusade #first #husband