Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans... →
Jared Diamond
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to... →
The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did... →
Neil Diamond
Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just... →
Cameron Diaz
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes... →
Junot Diaz
If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're... →
Michael Dickinson
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also... →
Denis Diderot
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so... →
Joan Didion
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich