Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn’t care whether you’re inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you’re expelling enough carbon dioxide – that’s the gas that sets off the panic button when you’re suffocating. Sam Kean Read Quote
Setting shouldn’t just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It’s not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary. Kaui Hart Hemmings Read Quote
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. George Mason Read Quote
I don’t believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I’m thinking I’m going to make this film. I don’t think about anything else. Matthew Vaughn Read Quote
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky. Stephen Daldry Read Quote
Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything – control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat – at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety. John Grant Read Quote
I don’t think there’s enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. Geoffrey S. Fletcher Read Quote
Often I think bullying – especially in its adult, verbal forms – is the sort of thing you don’t realize till the end of the day, and it’s a horrible feeling to realize something wasn’t just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we’re all capable of – of things that are breathtakingly cruel. Liane Moriarty Read Quote
Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds. Edmund Morgan Read Quote