#rio

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bit #book #caught #david #david letterman

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#days #educated #far #more #now

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#conjecture #i #i think #little #more

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends? ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#among #aught #causes #criterion #distinguish

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious! ↗

— Steven Wright

#apartment #furious #i #installed #live

There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political. ↗

— Will Wright

#haven #hope #i #issues #lot

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#against #agenda #always #exactly #feel

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#absurd #away #banging #find #getting