Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there’s no reason for it to be. I don’t want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. Zaha Hadid Read Quote
I think I got stopped on the train once by a kid, and that was the first time I realised I had fans. He was shaking. I just reassured him that I’m an idiot and nothing special, so he didn’t have to be nervous. It was very sweet. Sam Fender Read Quote
For women of my generation, it was the ‘juggling act.’ Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn’t come crashing down on our heads. Willow Bay Read Quote
If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it. Peter T. King Read Quote
I’m a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day. Paul Walker Read Quote
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse. Wendell Mayes Read Quote
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you’re learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course. Maya Hawke Read Quote
You see God’s hands in so many situations. Then someone will point to all the bad things that are going on. Well, it’s because we don’t want God in our society. We are pushing God farther and farther away. And we can now see those consequences in our society. Jeremy Camp Read Quote
We’re complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face. Bozoma Saint John Read Quote
Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn’t even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty – at least in the first four years of his presidency. Rick Perlstein Read Quote
