If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship. — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners,… — Hassanal Bolkiah Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“The anti-precog has to be present when the precog is in the process of deciding, not after. The anti-precog makes all futures… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
