When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.'… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“ MirkerLurker: I thought the characters were the reason anyone read Monstrous Sea. rainmaker: You mean like, shipping? MirkerLurker: No, not shipping… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost… — Barbara Windsor Copy Share Image
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I don't gamble anymore since I had a kid. I have fun in Vegas. I see shows, Cirque du Soleil. Don Rickles… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“rainmaker: Weird, I didn’t know you had such a thing for timid guys. MirkerLurker: Really does it for me when a guy… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering,… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
“A nurse’s aid threw the contents of a patient’s water glass out a window, the mass of water hitting the ground dislodging… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
