#read

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#already #band #committed #crew #dates

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#became #better #character #choice #conscious

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#child #good #good person #high-spirited #i

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#concentrated #experience #more #more people #most

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#already #hard #i #keep #learning

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#candle #light #mirror #reflects #spreading

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#dread #emigrants #held #indians #mexican

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work