#owl

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

#along #characters #discover #go #going

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#friendship #knowledge #love #friendship

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#change #enhance #evolving #health #important

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conceive #day #i #i do #into

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#consider #follows #i #knowledge #large

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#based #end #in the end #knowledge

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bowl #central #comedy #could #creators

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#echo #knowledge #lost #mist #soon

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#art #life #music #shalt #stream