Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
I didn’t want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn’t do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal. Josh Gondelman Read Quote
New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different creative impulses. Zephyr Teachout Read Quote
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination. Pankaj Mishra Read Quote
I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he’s a true artist. He’s not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he’s got an amazing sense of humor. Jemima Kirke Read Quote
