I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged. Rachel Platten Read Quote
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. George Haven Putnam Read Quote
For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women – fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence – often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time – like 10 or 15 minutes a day – to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place. Michael Finkel Read Quote
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing – who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you’re starting to grow interesting little wings? Michael Leunig Read Quote
Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They’re either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there’s something about them that comes from Superman. Gene Luen Yang Read Quote
I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren’t really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of. Paul Gilbert Read Quote
It is weird, the relationship between people and food. It’s always deeper than you think. It always stands for something else. Victoria Coren Mitchell Read Quote
The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our ‘Calaloo culture’ of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part. Anthony Carmona Read Quote
Within the structure of ‘Scream 4,’ there is the film within a film, but that’s been part of the ‘Scream’ franchise since ‘Scream 2,’ when you had the ‘Stab’ franchise. Wes Craven Read Quote
