#stand

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up. ↗

— Samuel West

#different #different worlds #grow #grow up #harder

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#long #nature #old #physical #physicist

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#i #personally #puritans #stand

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#end #gives #hair #hear #stands

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#could #die #ethics #financial #financial system

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#brings #dulling #especially #faculty #falling

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#design #each #entertainment #episode #i

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#am #amazing #anywhere #competition #development

I hated stand-up. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#i #stand-up