Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger. Jason Calacanis Read Quote
When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn’t an ordinary place at all. Homer Hickam Read Quote
A lot of actresses feel the pressure to constantly look good, to constantly show how well-toned every inch of their bodies are and how much they’ve been to the gym, not necessarily to do justice to the role they’re in, but to point out to the producers out there, ‘Hey, look what I’ve got – remember me for your next project.’ Caroline Goodall 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
Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations – and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings. Ben Dolnick Read Quote
Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it’s because the IRS budget has been cut, but I’m going to argue that it’s because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences. Ander Crenshaw Read Quote
Mumbai can be contagious. The pace of life is so fast that if I travel out of the city I am happy for a few days, but then I crave the Mumbai hit. Ananya Birla Read Quote
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. James Lovelock Read Quote
People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying attention to how they sound. To our unconscious minds, however, voice is very important. Leonard Mlodinow Read Quote
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
