My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don’t have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. – Sarah Shahi
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! – Winston Churchill
Most people didn’t have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. – Todd Rundgren
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich. – William F. Buckley, Jr.
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It’s always from travelling. – Yuna
My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in ‘Horton Hears a Who.’ – Sebastian Arcelus
After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track. – Thomas G. Stemberg
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. – Steven Pinker
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda – the great chain of being linked together through DNA. – Spencer Wells
I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall – something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment. – Susanna Kearsley
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word? – Sonia Levitin
For ‘Rocky II,’ I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together. – Sylvester Stallone
I taught myself to tune in to another person’s wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them. – Wolfman Jack
While other countries have been securing large export deals, American companies have been placed at a competitive disadvantage – forced to compete globally with one hand tied behind their back. – Stephen Fincher
I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. – Will Arnett
I tend to curve my back or pop my hip on the side. I always like to turn a little bit profile, and if you put one of your knees in, it also gives the illusion of more curves. There are a lot of tricks – you learn on the job sometimes. – Sara Sampaio
They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running. – Sherman Austin
I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with friends and cliques and getting picked on, or boyfriend breakups. – Sara Shepard
You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You’re actually able to see settlements and tombs – and even things like buried pyramids – that you might not otherwise be able to see. – Sarah Parcak
Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there. – Scott Speedman
When I’m back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff. – WizKid
Carter’s hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. – Walter Russell Mead
