#ding

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. ↗

— François Truffaut

#books-reading #film #life #music #art

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this! ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#article #beckham #believe #bending #big

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#friends #gay #hesitated #i #lesbian

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#always #anxious #children #day #father

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#forward #i #know #leading #life

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest. ↗

— David Neeleman

#after #company #efficiency #extras #finding

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. ↗

— Nicholas Negroponte

#boundaries #cyberspace #just #limits #understanding

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#culture #humor #love-of-reading #reading #sports

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#home #identity #architecture