I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told. Brian Selznick Read Quote
With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conservative, meant I grew up wearing stockings under shorts and long sleeves under tank tops. It was kind of embedded in me that I was supposed to be covering up. Winnie Harlow Read Quote
To those who don’t know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War. Ewa Kopacz Read Quote
When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn’t choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me. Ashraf Barhom Read Quote
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe. Ibrahim Rugova Read Quote
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. Michael Gove Read Quote
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn’t very colorful, and they don’t talk with any certain sound. Elmore Leonard Read Quote
I don’t feel bad about the fact that I notice if a lot of people laugh at a comic, and think, ‘That worked; I’ll do things like that more.’ Randall Munroe Read Quote
I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn’t like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing ‘dumb’ to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it. Danica McKellar Read Quote
Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him. Susanna Clarke Read Quote
