#fe

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#good #kin #life #makes #modern

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#award #few #film #focus #foreign

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#midwife #must #policeman #psychoanalyst

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#doing #feel #i #i feel #idea

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#fermat #fooled #had #himself #i

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#back #barack #barack obama #believed #bet

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#doing #earn #ever #feel #move

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#eyes #far #fever #had #mary

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#baby #been #carrie #creek #fever

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#behind #big #could #fence #go