#lace

I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#get #go #i #know #months

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#biggest #course #drawn #generation #i

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#blood #city #continue #defend #drop

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#bombing #come #conquer #defender #different

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#place #secret #such #tears

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#forum #functions #give #just #los

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#general #growing #how #internet #matter

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#any #athlete #athletes #believe #bit

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#believed #changed #confidence #first #got