In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued ‘Common Sense,’ advocating independence from Great Britain. Mike Crapo Read Quote
I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you’re planning strategies; you’re working with your own hands. There’s essential satisfaction in running experiments. Eric Kandel Read Quote
If you rent, the rent goes up every year. But if you buy a 30-year mortgage, the cost is fixed. John Paulson Read Quote
I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss. Shannon Bream Read Quote
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. Georges Cuvier Read Quote
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos. Paul Di Filippo Read Quote
I’ve been dancing since I was five. To me, dance is a visual representation of being free and empowered. Aditi Rao Hydari Read Quote
Francois Truffaut’s ‘The Soft Skin’ starts with a very mundane scene of a family and a man driving to the airport. Yet the music is like a thriller, and you don’t understand why. It’s not until later that you learn it’s because the movie is a thriller. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
