#roughly

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#background #character #fiction #had #i

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#costumes #following #fun #fun stuff #however

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#am #beings #human #human beings #i

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#harder #i #life #live #more

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#against #educated #give #himself #his

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#man #superstitious #thoroughly

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#am #creature #end #frail #get

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. ↗

— David Suzuki

#away #been #deals #delay #desire

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#feel #finger #get #grip #half

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#believe #conduct #excludes #i #i believe