#sai

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#insane #insane people #mainly #people #saints

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight! ↗

— Li Na

#boot camp #camp #fat #got #i

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #before #book #career #case

I've always said I'm going to get married only once. ↗

— Joe Namath

#get #get married #going #i #married

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#before #border #diego #doing #enforcement

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#contradict #goes #i #improve #me

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#dirty #down #father #find #get

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#again #alan #always #better #better job