My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days. David Mixner Read Quote
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Henry David Thoreau Read Quote
You can never really replicate the dressing-room environment and building something as a group of players. Joe Root Read Quote
I’ve always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative – the story of each patient, each illness. Lois Lowry Read Quote
We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards government, but yet the majority of people are without vision. We who have prevision must lead them and guide them into the right way if we want to escape the confusions of Western democracy and not follow in the tracks of the West. Sun Yat-sen Read Quote
My life has been in reverse. It wasn’t fame, and it wasn’t money, but I always wanted to succeed. The only way I could do that was to try with every job to be better than I was in the last one, and to learn. David Jason Read Quote
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn’t do that very long because I did other stuff. Neal Adams Read Quote
