#william

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#father #had #hank #hank williams #ravel

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#limerick #middle-age #old-age #seven-ages-of-man #william-shakespeare

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#agent #britain #chosen #court #deliver

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future. ↗

— T.M. Williams

#desperation #ethics #luxury #morality #tm-williams

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#first #football #job #mary #william

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#anything #before #blake #books #died

Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#everybody #face #had #i #like

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#again #emphasis #finds #him #interrelated

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#boston #composed #did #done #ever

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#around #comes #daughter #days #devours