Higashiyama Quotes & Sayings

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that. — Madonna Ciccone

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved. — Melinda Gates

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm. — Stewart Brand

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. — Seneca The Younger

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives. — Chris Kirkpatrick

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night. — Khaled Hosseini

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. — Jeff Goodell

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. — Rita Mae Brown

My soul remembered him, my heart connected with him but time had separated him from wanting me right now. — Nikki Rowe

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark. — Raymond Carver

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone. — Nicholas Rodger