I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said ‘try to’. Chris Paul Read Quote
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don’t know what they are doing. Ian Hacking Read Quote
I get quite a lot of people chatting to me online. Some of the messages do take me by surprise. They can be flattering. Jenny Ryan Read Quote
I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn’t care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off. Drew Goddard Read Quote
After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes. John Vane Read Quote
There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet’s sixth mass extinction. It’s hard to know for sure if you’re in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a – usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years. Annalee Newitz Read Quote
Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then ‘Old School’ has presented Ivan Reitman with a case. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it. Linda Colley Read Quote
Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear. Molly Ivins Read Quote
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
