Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. James Weldon Johnson Read Quote
I do think there’s no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off. Dan Schulman Read Quote
I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done. David Petraeus Read Quote
The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they’re doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified. Paul S. Kemp Read Quote
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. Geraldine Brooks Read Quote
I’m very into my cars. I always ready the Top Gear magazines just to see what cars are out next and what sort of performance they give. It can range from the smallest cars to the biggest ones. Micah Richards Read Quote
From the outside-in, Atlanta is kind of perceived as like popcorn. People don’t respect it as having artists such as myself and EarthGang and other lyrical talents and album-worthy artists. J.I.D Read Quote
When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country. Ivan Glasenberg Read Quote
