I can’t stay in the same place for more than 20 days because I need to make a video every single day on a different topic. Nuseir Yassin Read Quote
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people’s lives when they go in one direction, not another. Joyce Carol Oates Read Quote
In the Children’s Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk. Ben Dolnick Read Quote
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul. Aldous Huxley Read Quote
Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn’t feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs. Nick Park Read Quote
To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber Read Quote
My parents were not big sports fans, but my mother loved Barry Sanders, but she wasn’t a huge fan. Now she likes Calvin Johnson. He’s such an amazing athlete and such a wonderful, humble guy. Keegan-Michael Key Read Quote
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound. Saint Ambrose Read Quote
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about. Romola Garai Read Quote
I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me. Jane Yolen Read Quote
