It’s good when you get to travel and see different places. I went with Alexander Povetkin, who fought Anthony Joshua, to Russia and stayed in Moscow for a bit. Daniel Dubois Read Quote
Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family. Don McLean Read Quote
Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don’t recognise, an attitude that doesn’t accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don’t get or of which they don’t approve. Howard Jacobson Read Quote
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn’t mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that’s been created in America has been pretty much improvised… Whether it’s hillbilly or rock n’ roll for blues, it’s basically jazz music… It’s basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America. Jaimoe Read Quote
If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn’t exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be ‘just right.’ Seth Shostak Read Quote
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. David Brainerd Read Quote
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us. Daniel Dennett Read Quote
