When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art. Kailash Kher Read Quote
The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work. Michael Hayden Read Quote
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. Franz Kafka Read Quote
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me. Ahmed Ben Bella Read Quote
Alzheimer’s is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, ‘Oh it’s just your memory,’ but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn’t know if she’d eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn’t remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn’t know us. It came gradually, then it got worse. Bonnie Tyler Read Quote
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They’ll take one element of a story that may be true and they’ll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. Dennis Quaid Read Quote
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories. David Grann Read Quote
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. Alan Turing Read Quote
