ChanceJ K RowlingScience I don’t read ‘chick lit,’ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill. – J K Rowling Book Quotes Chance Quotes Chick Quotes Fantasy Quotes Fiction Quotes Hour Quotes J. K. Rowling Quotes Kill Quotes Lit Quotes Lying Quotes Read Quotes Science Quotes A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. At Southwest, they’re on a mission to democratize air travel. When they first started, the only people who could fly were relatively wealthy businesspeople, and Herb Kelleher’s vision was to offer everyone the chance to visit a friend or relative during a happy and a sad time. That’s a vision employees can get excited about.
Suhasini Maniratnam Raja Ravi Varma was one of the few Indians who not only understood women but also represented them exquisitely in a single dimension within four frames, infusing each painting with life through the use of color. – Suhasini Maniratnam
George Saunders I’m finding, as I get older, that I’m not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life – redemption does happen, and it’s cool when it does – but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). – George Saunders
Rosamund Pike I’d really love to live in New York for awhile. That’s what I’m hoping to do. – Rosamund Pike
John Dalberg-Acton The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. – John Dalberg-Acton
Michael Haneke There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition – which means seeing things you’re familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there’s also hysterical laughter – a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. – Michael Haneke
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