Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It’s the most widely used financial services product in the United States. Carolyn Maloney Read Quote
In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in ‘West Side Story’ when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved ‘West Side Story’ so much, and I somehow managed to get the role. Paulo Costanzo Read Quote
Twain’s ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’ made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis’s ‘Time’s Arrow’ wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then. Anthony Doerr Read Quote
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can’t deal with people who have no humour. Jeff Beck Read Quote
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. Mary Douglas Read Quote
One of the scary things is that, when you’re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you’re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too. David Duchovny Read Quote
