Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities.… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques.… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
Early gay novels such as 'Giovanni's Room' and 'The City and the Pillar' were not nearly as important to me as Isherwood's… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk… — Charles Simonyi Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the… — Greg Norman Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we've known comes so… — Percy Julian Copy Share Image
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Facebook's data trove is enviable, and its moves into nearly every aspect of our lives - from payment to media, will create… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it's your issue, there… — Charles Leadbeater Copy Share Image
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
