#wash

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. ↗

— David Frum

#group #more #other #people #speech

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week. ↗

— John Hall

#artists #dc #everywhere #francisco #go

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#city #conference #dinner #foot #go

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days. ↗

— Anson Jones

#be prepared #circumstances #city #days #deemed

That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30. ↗

— Donny Most

#good #quarterback #up #washed

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat. ↗

— Washington Irving

#revolution #washington #life

A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ. ↗

— Dave Barry

#washington-dc #humor

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#george #late #marshall #me #most

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#human #literature #men #must #off