#of

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. ↗

— Mae West

#box office #office #own #reward #sale

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232) ↗

— Torkom Saraydarian

#consciousness #creativity #manifestation #solar-angel #spirituality

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ↗

— Rebecca West

#cannot #complicated #forgets #learn #man

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides. ↗

— Shane West

#both #both sides #end #finished #friends

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much. ↗

— Timothy West

#bit #got #kitchen #kitchen sink #much

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#free #fun #going #i #i think

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #best #both #campfire #cast

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#between #calls #doing #drifts #guy

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. ↗

— Edward Weston

#hard #hard work #how #matter #photography

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak. ↗

— Kim Weston

#certain level #comes #down #first #gets