We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Eric Alterman

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

John Green

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

Orson Scott Card

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.

Kelvin Throop III

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Philip Levine

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

Fareed Zakaria

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

Chloe Moretz