Some of the writers I’ve praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women. Stieg Larsson Read Quote
My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn’t advertise that way, and I’m an American first. Bill Flores Read Quote
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn’t know who I was; I didn’t know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That’s when I went on the search for my birth family. Faith Hill Read Quote
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. Peter Zumthor Read Quote
North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country. David Rouzer Read Quote
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. James Connolly Read Quote
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn’t want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There’s a new kind of ethos now. David Crystal Read Quote
My father had sent me to Chennai on the condition that if I didn’t make it in two years time, I had to be back in Coimbatore, find myself a job and settle down. Nizhalgal Ravi Read Quote
