#own

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#ancestors #birds #desire #down #fly

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges. ↗

— Will Wright

#clicks #concerns #different #down #few

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#consciousness #contents #distinguishing #know #mind

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#books #carry #case #cassettes #down

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#before #boy #captain #collecting #competing

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#around #being #certain #i #just

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#appropriate #down #how #i #just

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#character #choose #emerge #going #i

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#because #being #bit #circulate #harder

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. ↗

— William Wycherley

#constantly #country #dwell #like #little