“On the sale of Essence Communications Inc: "What I would first learn is something that Suzanne de Passe, the legendary Hollywood producer… — Edward Lewis Copy Share Image
More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for… — Amruta Khanvilkar Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
“fructose was called the most fattening carbohydrate more than forty years ago by biochemists.” — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The whole point of Lady Gaga is that anyone can do it. A few years ago she was a nobody. She talks… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“A recent study of common frogs living near Ithaca, New York, for example, found that four out of six species were calling—which… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through… — Gary Neville Copy Share Image
“They jogged along in silence, Jem playing with the thong of the whip, and Mary aware of his hands beside her. She… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Sometimes dramas or happenings from 10 or 20 years ago are kept alive by people on a daily basis, whether it's personal… — Thekla Reuten 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
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all....… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“...he couldn't help but wonder what Hannah might have looked like if...he'd answered that question April had asked him years ago.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
Early on, many years ago when we started 'Avatar,' the executive that we were working with said to make the sad scenes… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
I remember I did a character in 'Robocop' years ago - Commander Cash. I wore this really ridiculous outfit, and my face… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
“Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was pumped up and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first of my many blessings is the fact that I was born in this great nation, a little over 50 years ago. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
“Come inside with me,” he urged, increasing the pressure on her elbow, “and I’ll begin making it up to you.” Elizabeth let… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Millet's Sower is an invented sower who is burdened with the artist's thoughts; he is but a creeping shadow on a ploughed… — Julius Meier-Graefe Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago I wanted tomove to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a niceboy and learn a profession.… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
“I've met your cousin," he told her, and her veins turned to ice. "Oh,really? When was that?" "A little over two years… — Kat Martin Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago. — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of… — David H. Murdock Copy Share Image
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia.… — Thalia Copy Share Image
“Critics may find this hard to believe, but students in American public schools today are studying and mastering far more difficult topics… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image