The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. Hunter S. Thompson Read Quote
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. Douglas Adams Read Quote
I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school. Jack Ramsay Read Quote
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. William Shakespeare Read Quote
I’m interested in Russian language, culture, history… and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. David Remnick Read Quote
You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn’t notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies. Steven Berkoff Read Quote
I sometimes wonder what would’ve happened if I’d entered the competition instead – I’d probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game. Paul Kane Read Quote
