#very

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. ↗

— Martha Washington

#anything #dull #else #here #i

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#because #block #chance #every #every time

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#america #anybody #child #continue #education

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#cows #every #farm #feeding #fields

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. ↗

— Bryan White

#artist #audience #could #every #i

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#high #high price #maturity #pay #price

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on. ↗

— Patrick White

#american #city #down #every #expecting

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. ↗

— Simone Weil

#god #invented #life #life is a #parable

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#air #air time #everyone #got #like