My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit. Jim Leyland Read Quote
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don’t find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe. Kip Thorne Read Quote
For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren’t Mormon say is, ‘I grew up with a Mormon family. They’re the nicest people I know.’ So when I see these statistics that it’s the most hated religion, I don’t know where they’re getting that from. Brandon Flowers Read Quote
I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn’t have cable, so I wasn’t familiar with what stand-up comedy was. I remember telling my friends that I thought stand-up comedy was like the thing that happened before the episode of ‘Seinfeld.’ Hasan Minhaj Read Quote
If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana. Ismail Kadare Read Quote
I just love real characters; they’re not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they’re regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they’re all right there on the surface. David O. Russell Read Quote
If you look at other countries, you’ll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It’s something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what’s appropriate for each of the two sexes. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
