Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs. Bobby Jindal Read Quote
Classical – perhaps I should say ‘orchestral’ – music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It’s all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities. Brian Eno Read Quote
Women’s books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it’s a woman, she’s ‘spilling her guts,’ and it’s not art. Erica Jong Read Quote
We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience. Howie Mandel Read Quote
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. Al Purdy Read Quote
It was on a trip to Africa with my family – I was eight – and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me. Cressida Bonas Read Quote
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. A. N. Wilson Read Quote
