I love Roger Deakin’s writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own aquatic adventures, ‘Waterlog’. Alice Roberts Read Quote
We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about. Al Franken Read Quote
There’s not a pill or an injection that’s going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball. Mark McGwire Read Quote
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they’re not trying to escape. Stanley Hauerwas Read Quote
I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision. Anupriya Goenka Read Quote
I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory on one hand, and things that are quite practical that you can touch and see and feel. So I picked it, and I consciously thought of it as an experiment to see if I liked it. And it worked. Michael Spence Read Quote
When we were working on ‘Julie & Julia,’ I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven’t made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren’t a grown-up. Nora Ephron Read Quote
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, James Agee, and – do we dare breathe the name – William Faulkner. Frances Mayes Read Quote
