Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads. John Grisham Read Quote
At a certain point, you have to decide whether you’d be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other people create or if you want to be in the same arena. Kerry James Marshall Read Quote
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican’s character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. Octavio Paz Read Quote
By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night. Vera Rubin Read Quote
I have on my wall right now a front page of the ‘Journal’ from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. Laurence Sterne Read Quote
I think, in a film that’s supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you’re making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke? Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. Edmund Hillary Read Quote
