#met

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#being #bishop #both #celebrate #challenge

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#brings #dulling #especially #faculty #falling

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#change #consternation #democracy #dominated #europe

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her. ↗

— Meg White

#barrymore #cool #drew #drew barrymore #grew

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#american #american music #davis #doing #forms

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#cry #dad #did #emotionally #kept

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#done #ideas #keep #must #something

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#brazil #brazilians #bunch #company #i

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#give #great #i #life #people

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#life