A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty. |
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all |
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. |
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. |
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. |
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. |
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks. |
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce. |
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce. |
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. |
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. |
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail |
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. |
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out |
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out |