I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don’t want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone’s throat. People are hungry for something of more substance. Lili Taylor Read Quote
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She’s taken on a life of her own, of course. Sue Grafton Read Quote
Fans and reporters, they don’t get that ever since I was five, all I’ve done is competed against something. I always had a goal. Then, whenever you hit a point, there’s a point in an athlete’s life where it’s like, ‘Is it still worth it?’ Johny Hendricks Read Quote
I worked at comedy clubs – if I can use the term ‘work’ – for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion. Bill Nye Read Quote
I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn’t much going on around there. Romy Madley Croft Read Quote
How do I feel about being called a national treasure? I think it’s marvellous if that’s people’s opinion. But I’d rather have the money than the label. David Jason Read Quote
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. Paul Hawken Read Quote
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. Jim Mattis Read Quote
The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease. Yohan Blake Read Quote
