#pen

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#attacked #culture #egypt #fact #feelings

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not. ↗

— Peter Wright

#beach #clothes #happen #i #landscapes

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. ↗

— Steven Wright

#making #penny #put #someone #somewhere

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. ↗

— Steven Wright

#grow #happen #how #i #i wonder

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.' ↗

— Steven Wright

#down #front #got #grocery #guy

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? ↗

— Steven Wright

#does #happen #headlights #light #spaceship

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

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

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

#enough #enough is enough #going #money #our

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