The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don’t even have breakfast together. A. N. Wilson Read Quote
If you want to make information stick, it’s best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it – to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in. Joshua Foer Read Quote
Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. Nelson Mandela Read Quote
To me, the word ‘hero’ hasn’t got positive or negative value – ‘hero’ is the person who leads you through the story. Pierfrancesco Favino Read Quote
To watch people dancing is the most entertaining thing on the planet and, as they take in more alcohol, the better it gets! Motsi Mabuse Read Quote
The contribution of Anthony William Greig to English cricket has been underestimated because of his allegiance to Kerry Packer and his choice to recruit players for World Series Cricket while still the England captain. His critics hold that as a black mark against him, which rules out anything else he may have done. Geoffrey Boycott Read Quote
Where you record is very important. It can’t be too nice, it can’t be too expensive, it can’t have a view to an ocean or a field. Madonna Ciccone Read Quote
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts. Sarah Silverman Read Quote
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. Pope John Paul II Read Quote
