When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog… whose task was to keep me from drowning. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years. Gregory Benford Read Quote
I was thinking of doing some exhibitions where I combine tennis and music. I might have a show at, say, the Staples Center, where I might play an exhibition against somebody who would be interesting, then take a break and go do a show. Redfoo Read Quote
I think it’s unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages. Ron Johnson Read Quote
Like so many of my generation and those younger, I have spent most of my life in the E.U., and my instincts were naturally for reform from within. Andrea Leadsom Read Quote
I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything. Hasan Minhaj Read Quote
I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian. Leonardo DiCaprio Read Quote
While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius’ way of thinking, and could follow him. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Read Quote
