Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. – Richard Petracca

Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take the trouble to buy and know you have prepared something special.