“The British government documents, as early as fifty years ago, an aim for education other than the one we have today: raising… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with… — Emanuel Azenberg Copy Share Image
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession -… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“The car was waiting for him, and in twenty minutes, he passed under the Broken Heart sign that used to read Tender… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I heard today was the day Kurt passed away 17 years ago. Can’t believe it’s been that long. So grateful for his… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“Oh, it’s a little worse than that,” he said, nettled. “It makes you the illegitimate son of the senior Republican senator from… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What is meant in Revelation 17 goes beyond the physical act of prostitution and applies to the spiritual aspects of turning away… — John Price Copy Share Image
“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit.… — John Snyder Copy Share Image
“All three of the English types I have mentioned can, I think, be accounted for as the results of the presence of… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“I thought about what a priest of Elua had told me about love many years ago, the first time I kept his… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I do yoga, like, 20 minutes a day, but the routine that I practice I initially watched on YouTube, like, two years… — Brian Degraw Copy Share Image
Today is like our first day of School, the butterflies are back as we remember the friends we made years ago. Our… — Theresa Alfaro Copy Share Image
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want… — Jack White Copy Share Image
20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting,… — Ken McCarthy Copy Share Image
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way… — Mel Martinez Copy Share Image
I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my… — Andy Gibb Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible.… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense:… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the complete package: incredibly smart,… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
“Get a load of this one... I heard that she actually thought paparazzi was the last name of one particular Italian photographer.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image