Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
Yo-Yo Ma
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of... →
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
Margo MacDonald
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham... →
Ross MacDonald
We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind... →
Andie MacDowell
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that... →
Neil MacGregor
There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to... →
London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone... →
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses... →