The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. Will Self Read Quote
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum – a lot of it’s new, but it’s still slum. It’s usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There’s street after street after street of that stuff. P. J. O'Rourke Read Quote
You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries. Jaromir Jagr Read Quote
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them. John Boyne Read Quote
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing. Radha Mitchell Read Quote
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger? Robert Kennedy Read Quote
The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don’t like waiting. Lee Hazlewood Read Quote
We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril. Deeyah Khan Read Quote
