Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. – Gloria Reuben
I’m not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best. – Halsey
But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I’m getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it. – Guy Clark
I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they’re interesting to me in some way, even if they aren’t exactly ‘pleasurable.’ – Gretchen Rubin
I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. – Henry Flynt
If we don’t get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It’s time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties. – Harvey Weinstein
What’s fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. – Henry Louis Gates
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time. – Helen Mirren
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty. – Hermann Maier
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it’s coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it. – Howard Schultz
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it’s no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof. – Greg Graffin
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort. – Henry Rollins
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. – George Gissing
You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair. – Gregory Hines
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I’m having right now being gone. – Gwen Stefani
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn’t really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren’t an underplay for me at the time. I’d never done a tour before! – Halsey
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to. – Graham Hawkes
I can’t think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. – Gillian Flynn
What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they’re going home to and what they’re dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we’re their escape. – Hayley Williams
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. – Harry Frankfurt
When I was in high school, I wasn’t really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do. – Guillermo Diaz
I’m thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me. – Harlan Coben
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau
‘SMiLE’ is perhaps the Beach Boys’ most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That’s a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson’s masterpiece. – Henry Rollins
I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you’re sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you’re sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you’re in the party the whole time, you don’t notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture. – Graydon Carter
