#lea

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

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top. ↗

— Chely Wright

#artist #different #i #i think #least

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

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #cameraman #dad #designer #director

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. ↗

— Joe Wright

#every #every time #feel #film #gives

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. ↗

— Joe Wright

#i #know #learn #lots #presume

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. ↗

— Orville Wright

#coin #condition #could #decide #fastened

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. ↗

— Richard Wright

#evidence #inferences #leave #presented

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out. ↗

— Steven Wright

#call #car #home #i #leave