Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can… — Bobbi Gibb Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life… — Paul Dacre Copy Share Image
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see,… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy… — Frances Beinecke Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people… — George Pataki Copy Share Image