#spur

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#danger #fear #fears #gives #prevent

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#big #buses #business #buying #development

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#come #couple #different #every #former

I would run through brick walls for Spurs. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#i #run #spurs #through #walls

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#funds #got #gradually #haven #need

The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#ever #get #him #keith #never

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ↗

— Tony Romo

#happen #i #i think #need #negative

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. ↗

— William Vickrey

#attempting #balance #balancing #budget #mischief

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. ↗

— Harold W. Dodds

#each #force #insecurity #our #requires