I’ve been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy. Colin Jost Read Quote
Forever Amber,’ written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers. Susanna Moore Read Quote
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is ‘Kafkaesque’ is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism – even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like ‘The Hunger Artist.’ Nothing is like ‘The Metamorphosis.’ Cynthia Ozick Read Quote
The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium. Bernardo Houssay Read Quote
As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what’s going on, you’re very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you’re guaranteed to fail. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
