#mos

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#confidence #especially #feel #i #influenced

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing. ↗

— Venus Williams

#being happy #course #happy #healthy #i

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner. ↗

— Toby Young

#always #belt #booked #column #coming

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#being #built #countries #doing #entirely

I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium. ↗

— Carl Zeiss

#great #i #i remember #remember #stadium

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#endeavors #help #help people #humanitarian #most

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#benefit #come #country #diamonds #discovered

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#counterproductive #i #i think #most #people

Giovanni had awakened an itch, had released a gnaw in me. I realized it one afternoon, when I was taking him to work via the Boulevard Montparnasse. We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon. ↗

— James Baldwin

#bisexuality #giovanni-s-room #homosexuality #love #lovers