If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they’re not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it’s the worst thing we’ve ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction. D. B. Weiss Read Quote
I am honored I have performed ‘Quizas Quizas Quizas’ with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing. Andrea Bocelli Read Quote
One of mom’s greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was. Ruth Reichl Read Quote
I’ve never owned a cell phone and don’t plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live. Phil Robertson Read Quote
I wouldn’t listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said – told me – but I did what they did. Andrew Young Read Quote
That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn’t begun to batter optimism. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it’s totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures. Hailee Steinfeld Read Quote
I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said ‘Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?’ And she’s like ‘Oh, no, you can’t come to my house ’cause my parents don’t like black people.’ Dee Rees Read Quote
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
