For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
Shoot for a total of no more than 80 grams of carbs in your daily diet. This means favoring vegetables that grow… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically,… — Saul Rubinek Copy Share Image
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that… — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image
The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal… — Justin Tuck Copy Share Image
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
There may be no issue that better illustrates the differences between Republicans and Democrats than energy. Consider it the 'all of the… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a… — Erik von Detten Copy Share Image
My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real… — Nandan Nilekani Copy Share Image
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and… — David Lange Copy Share Image
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
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