Children typically are not screened for dyslexia, which means it’s not until fourth grade that it’s detected, at which point they have to take a standardized test, and they can’t read. I mean, they literally cannot read. Bill Cassidy Read Quote
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away. Justin Cartwright Read Quote
There are all sorts of reasons why I don’t do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I’ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It’s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life. Peter Cushing Read Quote
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau Read Quote
We have multiple businesses, and obviously we want every one to stand on its own, and what you don’t want to do is manage one business from the profit of the other one. Rocky Wirtz Read Quote
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. Laura Marling Read Quote
You can’t take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. John Malkovich Read Quote
And I think that’s righteous, I think that’s what parents want to know. They want to know what’s going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that’s what this law does. Margaret Spellings Read Quote
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali Read Quote
