Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions… — Nneka Copy Share Image
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry… — Will Self Copy Share Image
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got… — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind… — Marin Ireland Copy Share Image
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there… — Bill Fagerbakke Copy Share Image
Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed. — Jaclyn Smith Copy Share Image
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives… — Doris Duke Copy Share Image
I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
