#co

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. ↗

— Richard Russo

#against #already #always #any #been

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#conflict #eased #east #find #flight

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#am #become #council #i #i am

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#call #christianity #churches #communism #communist

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#development #earth #had #increased #knowledge

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#balance #band #being #collaboration #compromise

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#buy #coming #cover-up #done #else

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#contradict #country #cradle #message #prophecy

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#deal #everyone #just #learn #limits