#avoid

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#avoid #boulevard #detours #grotesque #having

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#bring #classes #fact #great #individuals

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#errors #expert #fallacy #grand #person

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #anyone #art #avoids #been

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#get #had #higher #lane #little

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. ↗

— Mae West

#cultivate #curves #dangerous #may #won

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#alleged #avoided #been #ceased #having

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#must #sort #thing

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#avoided #convincing #often #vulgar