Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long… 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That’s why some of the chapters in my books are very short. Rhea Perlman Read Quote
Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world. Yolanda Hadid Read Quote
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn’t see things in this horribly oversimplified way. N. T. Wright Read Quote
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to ‘autobiography.’ Peter Carey Read Quote
You don’t get everything in life. You make decisions and have to live by them. If you make the right decisions, at the time you have no regrets. Anita Dobson Read Quote
Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he’d said to me, ‘We’re also going to sign someone who’s won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,’ I would have thought twice before signing. Robert Green Read Quote
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. Jessye Norman Read Quote
I’m just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, ’cause that’s where I’m from. Yakov Smirnoff Read Quote
A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible. Anthony Marra Read Quote
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
