“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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“In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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“Mario, I wrote, to give myself courage, had not taken away the world, he had taken away only himself. And you are… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“This is a joke. Right?” I’m pointing at the green-screen terminal on the desk, and the huge dial-infested rotary phone beside it.… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Look around you. Apartheid is being dismantled and Nelson Mandela walks the streets of South Africa. Until a few years ago, I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
When [my friend] had her kid, she was like, "9:30?! I'm not living in Barcelona. I need dinner at 6." I never… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Remember a few years ago when they left Bea Arthur out of the death reel at the Oscars? Bea Arthur! How did… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going… — J. R. Bourne Copy Share Image
Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week.… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
“As they sailed farther from the coast, the sky darkened and more stars came out. Percy studied the constellations-the ones Annabeth had… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“A mere sixty-five million years ago (less than two percent of Earth’s past), a ten-trillion-ton asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back… — Roy O. Disney Copy Share Image
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all… — Mister Lies Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“More than two thousand five hundred years ago. We have no way of knowing who painted this wall, but he speaks to… — Lillian Marek Copy Share Image