The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness. John Cheever Read Quote
When I’m in the field, when I’m working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks. Peter Matthiessen Read Quote
Frankly speaking, I don’t know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley! Ban Ki-moon Read Quote
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. Denzel Washington Read Quote
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. Russell Banks Read Quote
I grew up feeling ‘less than.’ I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I’d wait for my grandmother’s voice to call, ‘Jewell, Jewell.’ I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I’d be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies. Jewell Parker Rhodes Read Quote
When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef. Mike Johanns Read Quote
I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine – a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine – into a wearable in the form of a ski hat. Mary Lou Jepsen Read Quote
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I’m a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It’s a very solitary, quiet life when I’m not working. Alaina Huffman Read Quote