#ill

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#people #value #willing

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#based #happen #loses #poetic #poetry

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#american #american football #ball #ball games #baseball

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#extent #fit #football #i #keep

Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up." ↗

— Joe Namath

#name #shut #shut up #thought #till

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#acting #bonus #get #i #learn

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#find #fully #i #idea #intuition

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#mine #quality #quite #read #really