I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don’t resist it as strongly as you should. Margaret MacMillan Read Quote
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it’s going to be like the writers on the old ‘Dick Van Dyke Show.’ You’ll write something and they’ll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee. Jeffrey Klarik Read Quote
Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left. Mike Pence Read Quote
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. Aristotle Read Quote
All I want is for Remain United to lift the fog so that people who oppose Farage – and his chilling authoritarian vision for our country – can deploy their votes strategically and effectively. Gina Miller Read Quote
I don’t understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the ‘perfect’, when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view. George Voinovich Read Quote
I think if people stick with ‘The Leftovers,’ it’s a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that – and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show! Carrie Coon Read Quote
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me. Mario Testino Read Quote
I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year. Sebastian Thrun Read Quote