I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope. Robert J. Shiller Read Quote
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that’s the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked. Kip Thorne Read Quote
The first year I started hockey, I didn’t know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing. Shawn Mendes Read Quote
Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that’s a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think ‘Freak Show’ has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we’ll go for our own amusement. Finn Wittrock Read Quote
Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all. Donovan McNabb Read Quote
I don’t have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well. Kim Ki-duk Read Quote
This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska. Jeff Goldblum Read Quote
