#ross

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#baby #been #carrie #creek #fever

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#bleeds #country #every #familiar #leads

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#benefit #child #courage #crossover #doubt

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cross #drama #ends #enter #eternity

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#across #care #character #comes #end

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. ↗

— James Wolcott

#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arts #being #country #declining #due

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#anyone #best #chooses #does #experience

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us. ↗

— Roy Wood

#actually #album #always #band #bit