I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them. – Dick Costolo
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film’s final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made. – David Mitchell
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is. – Douglas Adams
I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That’s not who I am. That’s not where I am. – Gordon Brown
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry. – Paul Simon
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. – Daniel D. Palmer
We’re always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it’s a little raw and nervy. – E. L. Doctorow
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. – David Whyte
I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled. – Francine Prose
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. – Gloria Swanson
People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity. – Dan Buettner
