The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. John Dos Passos Read Quote
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are. Henepola Gunaratana Read Quote
I’m in politics to change things – if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples’ sandcastles. Boris Johnson Read Quote
I just… my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, ‘Go outside!’ But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of… rather an introverted child, probably. Helen Garner Read Quote
What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one’s party, above self and any special interest. Joe Sestak Read Quote
How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages. Azim Premji Read Quote
For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It’s purely historical. I’ve never made a dime on any of it. Clive Cussler Read Quote
