I was born in Pondicherry. Both my parents are French. They met in Pondicherry in the ’70s, got married, and stayed back in India. Kalki Koechlin Read Quote
Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction. Elif Safak Read Quote
I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would’ve offered me a 25-year contract to be the assistant coach, I would’ve taken it so fast. It was ideal. I was coaching one neighborhood over from where I grew up. Mike McCarthy Read Quote
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. Leo Tolstoy Read Quote
If Japanese tea ‘stands,’ it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. Isabella Bird Read Quote
You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, ’cause you know they’re never going anywhere, and at some point, they’re going to forgive you. Wendi McLendon-Covey Read Quote
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. Jack Kerouac Read Quote
We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now. Brian Greene Read Quote
