I was giving some of my teammates a hard time, saying I’ve got more pop than they do. Jake Arrieta Read Quote
There’s only a couple of coffee cups I’ll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I’ve got lots of others, but I won’t use them because I just don’t like… the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn’t right. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements. Marian Wright Edelman Read Quote
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they’re done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, ‘Wow.’ Frank Peretti Read Quote
The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It’s all working towards the same destination – the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I’m still taking the subway. James McBride Read Quote
At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing. David Soul Read Quote
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. Naguib Mahfouz Read Quote
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic – e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians. Claire Tomalin Read Quote
