Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is. ”

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. ”

We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose. ”

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces. ”

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long. ”

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people. ”

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more. ”

Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy. ”

The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance. ”

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine. ”