Will Whitehorn
Will Whitehorn
Will Whitehornwas the President of Virgin Galactic until December 2010, a company which plans to offer space tourism flights to the paying public...
cheer people want
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
airports littles misery
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ...
girl business party
An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
smoking doe pounds
Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
wedding nice men
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
sports dark umpires
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
money people insightful
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
christmas letters return
a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.
witty children zips
Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.
yield office done
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
bores-you heaven hell
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
weed nature years
Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
girl men trying
As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
mother fate goes-on
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.