Quotes of the day, July 12

  • I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing... and not much singing.
    Satya Bhabha
    Satya Bhabha
  • February 19

  • Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
    Louis E. Boone
    Louis E. Boone
  • February 18

  • If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
    Martin Jacques
    Martin Jacques
  • February 17

  • To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.
    Michael Eric Dyson
    Michael Eric Dyson
  • February 16

  • I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.
    Davis Schneiderman
    Davis Schneiderman
  • February 15

  • I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
    Angela Duckworth
    Angela Duckworth
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