When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor. Giorgio Armani Read Quote
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted. Mark Skousen Read Quote
In 2008, Putin’s message was, ‘We aren’t like a Central Asian republic, we aren’t going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.’ This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn’t work. Ivan Krastev Read Quote
You can’t beat a bar of chocolate between cheap white bread – there is nothing like it. Deborah Meaden Read Quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it. Craig Brown Read Quote
I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother. Sayed Kashua Read Quote
Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night. Stephanie March Read Quote
