I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn’t laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw. Denise Mina Read Quote
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga – stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It’s taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we’ll see whatever happens with that. Ethan Suplee Read Quote
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I consider the most important period of my life, from March 3rd, 1987, I think it was, to March 26th, 1995: the day I met Eazy-E and the day he died. To me, that was the most important period of my life, of my career, and the part that I am most proud of. Jerry Heller Read Quote
But I want you to know that what I’m doing here I’m doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer. Curt Flood Read Quote
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde. Alissa Quart Read Quote
Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, ‘That’s cool, whatever.’ But now, that’s what I’m most appreciative of. Daniel Ricciardo Read Quote
