The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him,… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Remember, you cant base your idea of success and happiness on other peoples opinions. Were not here to live up to each… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes.… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Confidence is key. You're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It… — Robert M Copy Share Image
Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image