#ants

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them. ↗

— Shaun White

#been #guy #i #play #sports

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acquire #animal #become #god #himself

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#about #certain #certain extent #certainly #come

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#burdened #feel #give #hard #i

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #only #other #tragedies #two

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

I'm too tasteful for my pants. ↗

— Ian Williams

#pants #tasteful #too

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#competition #everyone #league #wants