#rows

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. ↗

— Robin Williams

#brooke #brooke shields #eyebrows #her #love

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

#choice #daily #developed #grows #habit

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#either #every #every man #give #growing

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#car keys #drove #everyone #got #i

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#down #go #into #narrows #our world

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. ↗

— Rick Yune

#dealing #eyebrows #fantasy #genius #had

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#fall #grows #home #often #prices

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#because #big #big shoes #century #easy