Paul Theroux I’m constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. – Paul Theroux Books Quotes Constantly Quotes Heard Quotes People Quotes Read Quotes Running Quotes A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn’t make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn’t make a phone call. So for six years I didn’t make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
Andrew Flintoff I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on BA, and the leg room was fine. In business class, Virgin, BA, and Emirates are good. I’ve flown business class on Kingfisher, which has proper couches. – Andrew Flintoff
Rene Cassin We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. – Rene Cassin
EnvironmentalJack Dangermond There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities. – Jack Dangermond
Harold MacMillan Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. – Harold MacMillan
Bob Mould You’re surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form. – Bob Mould
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