“Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.” IfsDoneStarsClassShelvesShelf Life Author:Bella Freud
“Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.” ShouldFashionDecor Author:Lauren Santo Domingo
“To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science.” TryingHumansShowsNaturalModernActivityMethodClimateComplexesClimate ChangeDrivenProportionJust OneFollyOld FashionedDinosaursEmissionsUndertakingsVariablesAstronomersCo2Co2 Emissions Author:Ian Plimer
“They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange” WorldWayGivingWantedCultureForceNationsSimpleInfluenceModernHistoricalWestSpheresAppreciatedModern WorldColonyGive And TakeSphere Of Influence Author:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.” MenAgeLyingDiesLanguageAbilityDogCreationKingsDiseaseCatClaimsCancerSpreadCowsBiblicalRatsPlagueContagiousDiabetesMammalsProdigiousSpoken Language Author:Fernando Vallejo
“Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.” RememberForgetSuperiorsOverrated Book:The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel Source: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel
“People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs” PeopleTurnsProducts Author:Tom Rachman
“A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.” ReadingCommonConditionsDefenseArticlesObituaryCommon Defense Author:Tom Rachman
“The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.” HoursFictionTrainingJournalistFiction Writers Author:Tom Rachman