To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't. — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open,… — Angel Grant Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown… — Del Howison Copy Share Image
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way."… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole… — Akon Copy Share Image
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story.… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs.… — Jordan Rudess Copy Share Image
Most public persons do not market themselves as cheating lowlives - certainly not politicians (okay, maybe a few rock stars.) But most… — Roxanne Roberts Copy Share Image
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them,… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image