#works

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#forced #hell #own #special #their

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#change #closed #disingenuous #doors #either

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#fairly #familiar #familiar territory #getting #hood

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. ↗

— James Madison

#cannot #capacity #doubted #erudition #female

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#been #effect #had #into #languages

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#criticize #critics #extremely #floyd #floyd mayweather

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#willing #work #works

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#business #certain #diplomat #expectations #just

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works. ↗

— Linford Christie

#coach #establishment #i #i am #outside