You have a huge amount of confidence when you’re younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: ‘No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn’t I do it?’ Ian Hislop Read Quote
As a pro, I’ve been lucky enough to have been in front of big crowds every time I’ve boxed. Luke Campbell Read Quote
Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years. Michael Ballack Read Quote
The left takes credit for being the political aisle promoting human rights and fighting oppression, but in the case of Cuba, its adherents promoted oppression and human rights abuses for decades by glorifying the Castro regime and its savage enforcer, Che Guevara. Katie Pavlich Read Quote
The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student’s course evaluations that win the day with administrators. Michelle Grabner Read Quote
While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me. Jane D. Hull Read Quote
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children’s stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn’t until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children’s books. Michelle Magorian Read Quote
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic. Chuck Close Read Quote
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots – Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke. Mstislav Rostropovich Read Quote