I’ve always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years – now we’re lucky if it’s five. Nicolas Roeg Read Quote
I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can’t cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball. David Russell Read Quote
It’s not good just to have life experience of film-making and that’s all. It’s hard to play a real person when you’ve been in jets and town cars for three years. Ryan Gosling Read Quote
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth. Paula Fox Read Quote
If you’re going to compare me to somebody and it’s going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment. Gabby Barrett Read Quote
If there is anything about your ‘self’ of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as ‘you’ is here and now and nowhere else. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Read Quote
Kind ‘Guardian’ readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. Simon Hoggart Read Quote
