That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot! Lana Turner Read Quote
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it. Clive Lewis Read Quote
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man’s land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I’m capitalizing like a German, but it doesn’t matter whether it’s faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it’s the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. Richard Dooling Read Quote
If I’d been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II? And if I had, would I have done anything about it? I also started to wonder: how does a culture slip its moorings? Erik Larson Read Quote
I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve. Alexander Volkanovski Read Quote
The heroes of our youth grow old – ‘the boys of summer in their ruin’, in Dylan Thomas’s verse – yet we seem the same. John Thorn Read Quote
I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old. Adam Vinatieri Read Quote
The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that – they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be. Mark Van Doren Read Quote
