#ton

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. ↗

— John Webster

#air #blown #bubbles #care #follow

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day. ↗

— Barry White

#day #elton #john #label #opinion

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#al gore #bill #bill clinton #clinton #congress

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#automatic #been #debate #democratic #democratic society

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#course #earth #go #i #like

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#could #down #happened #i #into

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#boston #conservatory #england #got #i

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! ↗

— Orville Wright

#been #could #discover #just #many

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#government #shocking #steady #unexpected #washington

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair. ↗

— Tim Yeo

#conservative #conservative party #equal #first #first time