At home and in church – which I didn’t go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, ‘What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?’ and I was the one who always said ‘John 11:35’ straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me. Benjamin Clementine Read Quote
I’m off to race around the world – a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men. Dorothy Kilgallen Read Quote
For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. ‘Rang De Basanti’ made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me a confidence so strong, that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood. Vir Das Read Quote
We do a lot of science on the space station. Over the course of the year, there’ll be 400 to 500 different investigations in all different kinds of disciplines. Some are related to improving life on earth in material science, physics, combustion science, earth sciences, medicine. Scott Kelly Read Quote
Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that’s a role we have to play. Kate Garraway Read Quote
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. Ziggy Marley Read Quote
Europe ’72’ was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years – being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people – writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics – who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. Pankaj Mishra Read Quote
