#lis

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#both #composition #dialect #english #english language

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked. ↗

— Anna Wickham

#liked #listen #male #man #mate

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#funny #improv #listening #trying

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#fear #high #i #list #make

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#clothes #course #i #i do #i think

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#choose #comes #connoisseur #heart #like

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. ↗

— Larry Wilcox

#along #another #back #beach #being

She had one of those goofy smiles that made you wonder if she was too stupid to know that life sucks most of the time. ↗

— Darcia Helle

#hit-list #quotes #life

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#battle #because #been #big #blocked