#wat

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#beautiful #drifts #heard #i #like

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold. ↗

— Coleman Young

#going #gold #into #single #straw

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#documentaries #i #television #watch

I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it. ↗

— Torrie Wilson

#embarrassed #fan #fun #guy #him

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#give #growing #him #i #man

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#being #clothes #going #grandmother #hang

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#based #because #i #like #make

I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea." He was quiet for a second. "God," he said. "I should've just paid for it myself. Should've just taken you straight from the Funky Bones to Amsterdam." "But then I would've had a probably fatal episode of deoxygenation in Amsterdam, and my body would have been shipped home in the cargo hold of an airplane," I said. "Well, yeah," he said. "But before that, my grand romantic gesture would have totally gotten me laid." I laughed pretty hard, hard enought that I felt where the chest tube had been. "You laugh because it's true," he said. I laughed again. "It's true, isn't it!" "Probably not," I said, and then after a moment added, "although you never know. ↗

— John Green

#funny #hazel-grace-lancaster #funny

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. They know there is nothing a man in Washington can do to plug a hole a mile down in the gulf. On the other hand, they demand that the president 'take control.' They demand that he hold press conferences, show leadership, announce that the buck stops here and do something. They want him to emote and perform the proper theatrical gestures so they can see their emotions enacted on the public stage. They want to hold him responsible for things they know he doesn't control. Their reaction is a mixture of disgust, anger, longing and need. It may not make sense. But it doesn't make sense that the country wants spending cuts and doesn't want cuts, wants change and doesn't want change. ↗

— David Brooks

#emotion #obama #politics #vox-populi #anger