#so

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#caring #inside #light #others #person

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#certain way #demands #ignore #impossible #magnetism

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

I am a private person and that has always been my personality. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#am #been #i #i am #person

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#collapse #culture #economy #expected #full

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday. ↗

— Estella Warren

#camera #creating #directors #everyday #front

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#lot #making #making money #mind #money

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. ↗

— Greg Walden

#billion #costs #decrease #electricity #estimated