Galileo wasn’t put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn’t wish to see. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It’s not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing. Christopher Paolini Read Quote
If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you’ve embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I’ve been able to win. Mike Krzyzewski Read Quote
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself. John Searle Read Quote
My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me. Hisham Matar Read Quote
It’s fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there’s never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don’t think about where I’m from. Samantha Morton Read Quote
I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being honest storytellers. Alex Roe Read Quote
Yeah, we’re sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way. Bruce McCulloch Read Quote
