#sage

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#area #because #comedy #detective #done

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#i #important #important message #just #lot

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#message #music #shape #silence

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#any #audiences #because #being #convey

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#art #away #complete #cut #deliver