If you’re a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics. Gary Bettman Read Quote
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we’ve had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is ‘how to get along and mutually cope.’ Alan Kay Read Quote
I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is ‘Sarah Still,’ which is about our life, Sarah and me. It’s my favorite of all my poems. Shelley Berman Read Quote
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do. Ring Lardner Read Quote
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
I’ve always said Reina has the best distribution out of the continental ‘keepers. His kicking out and throwing is absolutely superb. He might actually score from a kick one day, either out of his hands or he’ll come 35 yards out and have a go at goal. Bruce Grobbelaar Read Quote
I didn’t like the attention and that’s what’s awesome about Rice. I would go to class, walk around campus and do my thing. No one even noticed who I was. Anthony Rendon Read Quote
I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren’t humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote