#tie

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#built #certainties #comprehend #dead #novel

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. ↗

— William Kunstler

#be real #cambodia #civil #civil war #closed

What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#cultures #different #different places #doors #i

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#cities #finished #four #i #i am

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work. ↗

— Ashton Kutcher

#doing #easy #forget #fun #going

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#colonial #decisions #during #fifties #french

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#development #fixed #history #pass #series

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#political #sanctions #serious #tied #would

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #entertain #frequently #gout #kidney

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#cross-platform #definitely #good #i #independent