Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Obviously I want to win all the big tournaments – I would hate to look back and not have won them. I also think, for me, there’s something about reaching a certain level rather than getting a certain number of wins. Judd Trump Read Quote
In Nigeria, if you say you’re a singer, people say, ‘So what? Everyone sings.’ In Germany, my voice stood out more. Nneka Read Quote
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private. Jennifer Weiner Read Quote
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty – and it leads to problems occasionally, ’cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean. Alton Brown Read Quote
I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying ‘Give me an opportunity; there’s not a woman in primetime’… I was just trying to be so good they couldn’t ignore me. Megyn Kelly Read Quote