Ability Quote by Dan Chaon

“I admired Elsa Greer because she had guts, because she could fight, because she stood up to her tormentors and never quailed! But I…

— Agatha Christie

“Poirot asked: ‘Whatdo you see so plainly? The witnesses? The counsel? The judge? The accused standing in the dock?’ Fogg said quietly: ‘That’s the…

— Agatha Christie

I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I've long admired.

— Robert B. Weide

I've long admired Michelle Obama's devotion to encouraging fitness for children.

— Hilaria Baldwin

I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party.

— Charlie Sykes

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that…

— Frederick Lenz

Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration…

— Randall Kennedy

Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The…

— Hope Edelman

I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have…

— Ross McKitrick

There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

“Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.”

— Marshall McLuhan

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

— Warren E. Burger