#william

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams. ↗

— Phil Hartman

#brilliant #compete #cute #felt #i

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

Well, what do you want me to say?' The Doctor was so angry he was almost hovering. 'Well done on marrying the only male nurse not to have a full set of Barbara Streisand records? Why did you pick him, anyway? Were there no flight attendants in your village?' 'Only Jeff,' [Amy replied]. 'Ah.'... 'I picked Rory, always Rory, because he is just like you,' I [Amy] yelled at him. 'He is sweet and understanding and funny and he always tries to do the right thing. Plus you both run the same way.' 'We do not.' 'Do so. ↗

— James Goss

#doctor-who #rory-williams #the-doctor #funny

Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler. ↗

— William Kittredge

#home #past #snow #william-kittredge #change

With God on your side, what does luck matter? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #william-herondale #luck

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess? ↗

— Britney Spears

#love #marry #prince #princess #want

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player. ↗

— Bob Feller

#dimaggio #ever #greatest #hitter #i

Love peeps who have 2 correct me. Well it's peeps like you that give me fault when it comes to Apple. Apple been annoying me as well when it comes 2 trying 2 auto-correct me. Always ends up spelling it freaking wrong and just generally making me look like an asswipe as well as itself. It was fine b4 you changed it, I know I spelt it right, just like COLOUR is not spelt COLOR in my country!!! I never typed PEAK!! I wrote PEEK! it just decided not to and pissed me off just like peeps, like you, who like 2 auto-correct me! Rant over! ↗

— Ellie Williams

#ellie-williams #elliewillz #change