George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity’s tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there’s a tented camp called Jack’s Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs – you feel like you’ve just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. Mark Burnett Read Quote
I don’t think I would move into politics, but our job is often about pulling things down. It’s about why something won’t work, which I think is valuable, but it’s not always constructive. Emily Maitlis Read Quote
I didn’t have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence – a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t the reason I was racing. Michael Schumacher Read Quote
A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of ‘Spanking The Monkey,’ kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take. Jeremy Davies Read Quote
My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they’re forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about ‘Chance.’ Kem Nunn Read Quote
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times. Jack Osbourne Read Quote
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Marcus Tullius Cicero Read Quote