#ted

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#express #grail #holy #holy grail #i

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#any #architect #asking #begun #comes

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#back #brother #chris #day #father

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ↗

— Anais Nin

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#assumed #axiom #blinded #folly #gifted

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ↗

— Adela Florence Nicolson

#desire #devotion #often #sated #virtue

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#corrupted #destroyed #goodness #love #power

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#interested #la #money #start #try

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#father #five #him #including #people