#sai

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13. ↗

— Shaun White

#away #board #came #dad #face

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#before #did #discover #everything #importance

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution." ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#heard #human #human rights #i #interesting

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #children #down #first #generation

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#far #goes #heard #i #middling

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#entirely #exactly #follow #hints #must

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#great #hated #i #learn #like

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#compete #defines #every #every night #great

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ↗

— George Will

#baseball #canyon #created #equal #game