The BBC does a sterling job, but I’d like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying. Melvyn Bragg Read Quote
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis Read Quote
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson Read Quote
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn’t mean that it won’t come at a huge cost. Alan Ball Read Quote
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. Lily Tomlin Read Quote
Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn’t happen that way. Diana Taylor Read Quote
There’s so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make. David Twohy Read Quote
The fact that we have 7 days of the week can be traced to the Babylonian and Jewish civilisations, with the first documented reference dating to 600BC. Simon Singh Read Quote