Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at… — Saina Nehwal Copy Share Image
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more… — Phil LaMarr Copy Share Image
The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it… — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality;… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day.… — Lucy Fry Copy Share Image
