What’s gratifying is that it’s my books that are being read and reread until they’re battered over the years. I love that. – Isobelle Carmody
The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by ‘Wouldja please get this over with’ and not let us go into default. – Nan Hayworth
Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever. – Murray Rothbard
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. – Monique Coleman
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn’t tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other. – Michael Dirda
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. – Jodie Foster
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. – Lincoln Chafee
Over the years, I’ve learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists. – Mahesh Babu
I’m still pulled over… We were nominated for two Oscars for ‘Monster’s Ball,’ and I almost didn’t make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills. – Lee Daniels
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. – John Lewis Gaddis
All of the things I used to obsess over, I’m no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they’re a little more existential or cosmic. – Josh Radnor
By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland’s first casino, with 1,900 slot machines and eighty-nine table games. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world. – Mads Mikkelsen
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. – Julian Assange
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. – Lucretius
