I have been in control of what I’ve been doing, of the career I’ve put together. Aidan Gillen Read Quote
With Gear, you’re able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket. Pranav Mistry Read Quote
Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying – at least among adults – is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying. Andrew Lansley Read Quote
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn’t know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that. Colm Toibin Read Quote
My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I’ve done. Ruth Wilson Read Quote
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I’m narrow-minded and a purist. I’d never mess with it. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it’s not a sonnet, it’s not an opera, it’s something short – three and a half minutes by nature – and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures. Doug Aitken Read Quote
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. Robert Darnton Read Quote
Technology has transformed how we live, learn and work, but not everyone has been able to participate in these developments. Julian Castro Read Quote
