After you’ve watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, ‘Yes, sir,’ and meant it. John Ritter Read Quote
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. Antonio Damasio Read Quote
Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital. Kevin O'Leary Read Quote
I’ve been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old – I’m destined to be a mother. Alicia Silverstone Read Quote
I’m not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we’ve got to inspire our kids that we shouldn’t be ashamed to be successful. John Catsimatidis Read Quote
You can always tell a person’s real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they’re family. Chuck Norris Read Quote
So many white people don’t want to talk about race; it’s uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today. Beth Macy Read Quote
I don’t remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I’m five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera – not a DSLR – with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom. Ren Ng Read Quote
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud. Lucy Larcom Read Quote
