#wit

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#anyone #been #could #feel #gift

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

#appellation #before #entitled #friendship #growth

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

#few #few men #highest #men #virtue

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! ↗

— Kerry Washington

#afforded #african-american #college #could #ellis

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#any #could #family #instruments #sing

Without obsession, life is nothing. ↗

— John Waters

#nothing #obsession #without

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen. ↗

— Doc Watson

#being #being yourself #big #comes #down

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic. ↗

— Emma Watson

#conversation #good #good conversation #great #him

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#about #actress #anything #even #experience

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly