I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that... →
Rita Dove
Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.
Roma Downey
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about... →
Jerry Doyle
I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other... →
Rahul Dravid
I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a... →
Bill Drayton
A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral... →
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench... →
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
Adam Driver
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Diane Duane