#wit

Human improvement is from within outward. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#improvement #outward #within

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#kicking #old-fashioned #rump #witnessed #you

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#areas #cultural #go #going #historic

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #children #clothes #emperor #half-wits

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for. ↗

— Levon Helm

#crowd #distance #get #happens #here

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#tenderness #uninteresting #without

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things. ↗

— Tim Gane

#almost #any #band #because #does

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#character #derives #exterior #inspiration #interior

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#art #drawing #eraser #life #without