Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.


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Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI
One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE
As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM
I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE
I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER
To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER
You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA
Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN
When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA
What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA
Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER
T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE
I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES
Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN