It turned out in the long run that Lincoln’s credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. John George Nicolay Read Quote
I remembered being young in the late ’70s and early ’80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun. John Niven Read Quote
I have big dreams, but if God would’ve told me that I had to sing in a local bar in Barcelona, and that that would be my life, that would be my life, I would’ve done it with the same passion. Rosalia Read Quote
If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he’s planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what’s behind Macbeth. David Hewson Read Quote
One With You’ was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times. Sylvia Day Read Quote
The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don’t see any scars on Archie Manning. Archie Manning Read Quote
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. Frank Gehry Read Quote
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system. Viet D. Dinh Read Quote
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read Quote
