V. S. Naipaul Quotes
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
Quotes to Explore
-
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
-
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
-
When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
-
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
-
In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
-
I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
-
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
-
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
-
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
-
Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
-
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
-
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
-
I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.
-
In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.
-
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
-
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
