Will Nicholson
Will Nicholson
William Faust "Will" Nicholsonwas an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1955 to 1959...
reading writing firsts
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
slow-motion poetry-is prose
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
shoes firsts adults
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
book reading ipods
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
mistake thinking credit
But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.
worry rooms peculiar
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
book persistence quality
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
way sides action
History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.
running grief night
I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty.
book matter needs
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
healing thinking world
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
consider lose matches sophomore until wrestler
You can say you wrestle, but if you lose all your matches you're not really a wrestler. I didn't consider myself a wrestler until my sophomore year, but now, I do.
coast guard population reflective united wants workforce
The Coast Guard wants to make its workforce reflective of the population of the United States,
advantage beat chances clutch good obviously quality team tight tough win
The first game, (Phoenix) had all the chances and didn't take advantage, and we got the clutch hits. It's good to play tight games, and obviously it's better to win them, but it's tough to beat a quality team when you give up that many chances.