I hate comparisons, just as I hated being compared to my brother and vice-versa. Smriti Mandhana Read Quote
You know that thing where you’re trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you’re trying to fit the word that’s in your head in the puzzle, and then you go ‘Ugh!’ and you walk away, and then it comes to you. I’m interested in that moment. The release of expectation, and the release of pleasing yourself and pleasing anybody. Breaking the mindset. Jeffrey Tambor Read Quote
The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts. Susan Stewart Read Quote
I appreciate what I’ve achieved, and nearly all of that is because of my dad. He pushed me to train harder than I would have done if he wasn’t there to discipline me. Joe Calzaghe Read Quote
When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to wear it. Harry Kane Read Quote
I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that’s the end of it. John Zorn Read Quote
When I was about 12, I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a top footballer, but I won my first British ABA title at 13. From then on, I wanted to be a world champion. Joe Calzaghe Read Quote
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? William Wilberforce Read Quote