#sense

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. ↗

— E. B. White

#absolutely #american #believes #else #himself

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#also #eight #freedom #i #morning

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. ↗

— Bern Williams

#had #same #sense #sense of humor #strange

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#being #benefits #describing #how #often

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#felt #fingers #humor #i #just

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#coaches #comes #especially #i #i think

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#art #flourishes #sense #where