#thou

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. ↗

— Steven Wright

#making #penny #put #someone #somewhere

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

#about #dictionary #everything #i #poem

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#concepts #does #honour #into #our

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#almost #anything #being #cage #compounds

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#decided #eventually #had #i #just

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#bad #because #hurt #i #i wish

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#appropriate #down #how #i #just

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#became #completely #contribution #else #good

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ↗

— William Wycherley

#beauty #handsome #i #i think #more