In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying ‘Come to our gigs’. Oliver Sim Read Quote
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don’t want to live a grubby life. Alexandra Stoddard Read Quote
If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism. Heather Brooke Read Quote
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. Bret Easton Ellis Read Quote
It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late ’70s and ’80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings. Duncan Jones Read Quote
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. John Ruskin Read Quote
I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge. James E. Faust Read Quote
