My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security – an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded. Ban Ki-moon Read Quote
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you’re doing one thing. That is, you’re going to make the audience laugh. Leslie Nielsen Read Quote
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. Barbara Kingsolver Read Quote
Every time I go somewhere, I’m like, ‘This is where I want to be.’ And then I’m like, ‘But do I want to live here?’ Charlie Heaton Read Quote
Advances in technology – hugely beneficial though they are – render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. Martin Rees Read Quote
