#lives

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bedroom #big #breakfast #day #even

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher! ↗

— Terri Windling

#changed #editors #england #fantasy #get

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#able #being #concentrate #difference #does

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lasts #make #outlives #us

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#expression #fragmented #lend #live #lives

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#existed #gives #lives #longer #memories

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#always #fact #leaders #lives #need

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#behind #easy #especially #focus #house

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #aware #become #brutal #does