Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets – Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a few. There were many poets. Gulzar Read Quote
The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge. Ban Ki-moon Read Quote
It’s a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize. Ron Chernow Read Quote
I’m not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go all day. Wendy Williams Read Quote
I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one. Aaron Judge Read Quote
From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world’s problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea. Justin Sane Read Quote
I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I’ll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that’s the great thing about social media. It’s not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time. Olivia Wilde Read Quote
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn’t have much money. Then that generation went, ‘OK, great’, and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn’t caught up. Helen Mirren Read Quote
What I’m passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. Chris Marker Read Quote
