#ux

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#danger #door #fangs #knows #learns

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #luxury #people #possibility #talk

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#courses #evaluating #golf #had #how

I am a fan of wuxia. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#fan #i #i am #wuxia

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. ↗

— Andrew Young

#expired #kingdoms #luxury #many #soft

Linux is only free if your time has no value. ↗