Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. John Burnside Read Quote
I don’t want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It’s just the union of what I’ve been listening to and what I’ve been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don’t want to give it a name. Hiromi Uehara Read Quote
Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set. Lisa Jewell Read Quote
I embrace everything about Ally… I don’t particularly see her as a whiner. One week she’s tough, the next she’s really weak. I love that. She’s human. Calista Flockhart Read Quote
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you’re ‘an artist under oath’ you’re writing from a mountain of documentation. Stacy Schiff Read Quote
I can play as a No. 8, a No. 10, out wide. Wherever I play, I’ll be happy, I’m sure. James Rodriguez Read Quote
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! Joseph Banks Read Quote
As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly. Richard Cohen Read Quote
It is only the Somalis themselves – and I don’t hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here – they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. Jan Egeland Read Quote
