My mother’s family didn’t speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn’t want to worry their children about the war. Elizabeth McCracken Read Quote
South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase – ‘I was homesick even when I was home.’ Sydney Pollack Read Quote
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. Henry James Sumner Maine Read Quote
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won’t have the patience to pick them out. Martin Yan Read Quote
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of. Ned Rorem Read Quote
The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach. Rajon Rondo Read Quote
Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags. Matthew McConaughey Read Quote
Either data supports the observations or they don’t. Voting doesn’t work in science. Alan Stern Read Quote
