#lab

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#films #i #i love #laboratory #like

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#border #consistently #country #dealing #employers

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alone #anymore #businesses #capital #costs

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#constant #fool #labor #life #man

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#filing #labels #people

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. ↗

— Holly Near

#child #intended #lullaby #much #music

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. ↗

— Holly Near

#been #city #grown #had #involved

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #call #doing #expressionist #first