I think New York is a good place to write in general because it’s a grid. It’s organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. Alex Turner Read Quote
You got to be interested in other things. If you focus on one thing, you’re going to eventually – like, you’re going to get bored with it, or you’re going to get burned out on it. Willie Cauley-Stein Read Quote
What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation. S. C. Gwynne Read Quote
All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I’ve achieved since then is above and beyond. Shania Twain Read Quote
The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today’s world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity. Yann Arthus-Bertrand Read Quote
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope Read Quote
We’ve got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children’s problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it’s fine, and then some days we just are at each other’s throat. Ringo Starr Read Quote
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication – and end up shouting at one another in block capitals. Pico Iyer Read Quote