#up

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

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#bobby #course #ended #fairway #getting

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

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #fat #give #handle #how

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#corrupted #destroyed #goodness #love #power

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble! ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#always #because #been #brothers #comedy

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#comedian #comedy #doing #get #going

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#comes #condition #death #earth #heart

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#be true #come #concerning #consideration #into