Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist… — George Noory Copy Share Image
I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods,… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that… — Roberta Williams Copy Share Image
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I lived in Las Vegas, I was meeting everybody: Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones -… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
