#ox

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#become #clear #freedom #ignored #longer

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ↗

— Debra Winger

#botox #choices #comes #honest #i

I don’t want you to be sorry. I don’t want you to be anything,” I snapped. Her expression was the final straw. Of course she didn’t want to be around me. I was an infantil asshole that had the emotional control of a three-year-old. I shoved away from the table and pushed through the door, not stopping until I was sitting on my bike. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them. ↗

— Robert Wise

#apple #box #closed #decisions #include

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#discussions #goes #into #like #never

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. ↗

— James Wolcott

#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. ↗

— Steven Wright

#child #eventually #had #i #kid

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. ↗

— Steven Wright

#box #make #out #plane #stuff

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. ↗

— Andrew Young

#diplomacy #invented #once #xerox