There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
Red Dawn’ was very resonant with a lot of people – they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical. Lea Thompson Read Quote
My job is really to… everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of – to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working. Duncan Jones Read Quote
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Read Quote
History’s written from what can be found; what isn’t saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. Jill Lepore Read Quote
People are surprised when they realise that I have sung ‘Tinku Jiya’ as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don’t try something, I don’t refuse it. I like challenging jobs. Javed Ali Read Quote
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books. Gary Wolf Read Quote
I’m interested in how we react when we’re heavily pressed. When we’re vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave? Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
