I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you… — Magnus Scheving Copy Share Image
I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
For every family in liberal San Francisco that went solar with SunRun in 2010, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made… — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat. — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of… — George Will Copy Share Image
I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best… — Tony McCoy Copy Share Image
In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
