#thou

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#around #been #best #book #books

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#father #had #i #life #my life

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#art #civilization #mother #our #own

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. ↗

— Ron Wood

#could #got #human #iron #keep

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. ↗

— Brock Yates

#been #bicycle #child #damage #elevated

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#band #because #crazy #friend #guys

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#because #been #buddhism #detail #direction

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though! ↗

— Roberta Williams

#even #exceed #hard #hard work #lot

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

I think the most romantic letter you ever gave me was “W,” because it’s a couple of soul mate “V”s. Or maybe they were a couple of letters of the same sex engaging in a homosexual relationship. A “W” is two “V”s in a civil union, but the world is not ready to flip that on its head and let them go for the big “M. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #gay #gays #homosexuality