One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them. Jean Fritz Read Quote
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. Gilbert White Read Quote
I can’t read music. Instead, I’d do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize – out of like 5,000 kids! Eddie Van Halen Read Quote
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion Read Quote
I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest – and many living poets as well. Brenda Hillman Read Quote
When I told Arsene Wenger I was leaving, he said to me, ‘I have £25m to spend on a few players.’ My answer was, ‘Obviously, Mr. Wenger, you are not shopping in Harrods. That will only buy you one good player.’ Now I have been proved right. Patrick Vieira Read Quote
India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger. Arundhati Bhattacharya Read Quote
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. Will McDonough Read Quote
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. Ari Fleischer Read Quote
