“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.” IfsThinkingWayLooksLittlesBookEnoughFallUniverseMy OwnWonderExampleShapesRainWindowRoundsDetailsClassicFascinatingNoticingOwn BusinessFacetsRaindropsMinding My Own Business Author:Diane Ackerman
“The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...” MayVoiceMy OwnTraditionWesternRoundsMusicalExperimentsCentreMy ThoughtsEldersClassical Music Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love about this is having an idea and seeing it come to fruition on screen. I would like to direct someone else's script one day, but I might not get round to it before I die - you can't legislate for being hit by a bus!” YearsIdeasMightDiesMy OwnSeeingEasierOne DayDirectRoundsScriptsBusFruitionBefore I Die Author:Ricky Gervais
“This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.” WorldEyeGirlMy OwnHalfThis WorldDrugDevilRoundsSmokingHer EyesBudForksDaft Author:Dylan Thomas
“I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.” PeopleIfsFeelsI CanMy OwnPaintRoundsPainterCanvas Author:Francis Bacon