#works

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#every #how #i #know #monday

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beware #finds #hard #himself #learn

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#discovering #everybody #honorable #made #possible

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun. ↗

— Rick Warren

#enough #fun #get #good #good works

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. ↗

— Harold Washington

#affirmative #affirmative action #going #keep #muster

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#bryant #criticize #else #game #his

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#comfort #drew #given #glass #major

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful. ↗

— Randy West

#applause #audience #audience members #enjoyment #evidence

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#between #calls #doing #drifts #guy

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#i #into #life #my life #only