Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
James Dyson
Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a... →
Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which... →
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was... →
Marcus du Sautoy
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole... →
Terry Eagleton
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of... →
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and... →
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
Justin Townes Earle
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the... →
Sylvia Earle
I always wanted to be known as the girl who was good at hockey rather than the girl you see in magazines.
Casey Eastham