#ra

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#depended #i #kindness #strangers

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. ↗

— Kit Williams

#built #career #center #clock #clocks

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. ↗

— Kit Williams

#fairy #fairy tale #got #had #how

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. ↗

— Kit Williams

#book #character #divided #fairy #fairy tale

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery. ↗

— Kit Williams

#feature #hoop #painting #place #rabbit

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow. ↗

— Kit Williams

#carved #chariot #extended #follow #form

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade. ↗

— Larry Williams

#out #three #tied #trade #washington