#nap

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#chefs #cook #gourmet #grandfather #i

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

I only need to write about 3,000 one-liners a day to produce a million jokes a year. Simple. I’ll just get started after I take a nap. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jokes #nap #one-liner #work-ethic #change

In Indianapolis,Mo’s is the place for steak.Of all the restaurants in Indianapolis, nowhere will you find a better dining experience than Mo’s consistently delivers. Click here to get more information :http://www.mosindy.net. ↗

— indianapolis

#experience

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#boxing #character #dude #during #even

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#companion #did #drinking #eating #finally

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. ↗

— Jon Heder

#bill #bill gates #did #dressed #gates

Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry. ↗

— Mikhail Kutuzov

#him #moscow #napoleon #sponge #stem

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ↗

— Steven Levy

#beautiful thing #been #behind #collaboration #distributed