#rise

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. ↗

— Holly Near

#being #hurt #part #shocked #surprised

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. ↗

— Holly Near

#great #had #i #like #living

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there. ↗

— Holly Near

#just #leave #out #part #rise

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#crises #force #least #occur #think

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#definition #i #man #marriage #mr

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#art #cause #emotion #i #newness

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#any #church #circumstances #does #every

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#body #extremely #human #human body #i

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails