I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming. Michael Phelps Read Quote
I do think I’m terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It’s rare that you get in a situation in life where you don’t know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don’t want to. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them. Michael Spence Read Quote
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
There’s a lot of pressure on a film set that’s more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you’re nervous about what’s going to happen next week. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas Read Quote
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship. Kevin A. Ford Read Quote
I have four strikes against me. I’m black, I’m short, I’m intelligent, and I have a medical condition. Gary Coleman Read Quote
I feel very French and I need my life here; I need all my friends and family. Audrey Tautou Read Quote
One of the most destructive things that’s happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse. Alexander McCall Smith Read Quote
