#all

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#because #become #circumstances #dream #few

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. ↗

— John Byrne

#boy #dream #feel #find #i

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#allowed #being #candidate #democracy #dislike

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#call #chameleon #go #i #like

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#always #asked #back #because #been

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that. ↗

— Gary Locke

#ask #books #campaigns #change #game

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#fall #future #had #hopes #in the past

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force