I find it strange that – at least in my take on it – the people who are the most alarmed about the dire times we live in are the ones who seem to be humorless, in their taste for poetry anyway.
BILLY COLLINSI find it strange that – at least in my take on it – the people who are the most alarmed about the dire times we live in are the ones who seem to be humorless, in their taste for poetry anyway.
BILLY COLLINSMen used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.
BARRY WHITEI’d like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues – what to anticipate, what to expect, what they’ll need to do to prepare themselves.
BARRY BONDSMake up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,
ENID BLYTONWrite a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHer stories always ended with three dots, sounding like an unfinished melody; she hoped he would guess the rest.
ANI SHAHVERDYANI think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
BOB WEIRWhen writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
JOHN IRVINGWhen an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
BERNHARD SCHLINKHe didn’t move a muscle, not one inch, and he didn’t drop one tear. I tell you that and you are probably like, “Wow, how is that even possible?”
ADRIAN PETERSONThe fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.
BERNIE GLASSMANWhat was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
BARRY LYGAWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
STEPHEN HAWKINGAll great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
GARY KELLERWe seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
THOMAS SOWELLThe key to success is failure.
MICHAEL JORDAN