There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley explains that around the world the kids whose… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“of the most cruel class struggle” in higher education over “the question who will be master.” Reflecting the confidence of the cells,… — Michael David-Fox Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Getting away from the media was the first step of breaking away from the crowds, and let me clearly state, not in… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You probably like discernment websites run from caves deep in the woods; the words illuminati, Armageddon, last days, and one-world order; not… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
“An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I wasn't a great improviser when I started there; I'm not really up on current events. I would always just mug, just… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
