In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive,… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains -… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things,… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when… — Ryne Sandberg Copy Share Image
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement,… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system,… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados;… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
