3 December 2020 Alan Rickman Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
3 December 2020 Ed Koch There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
3 December 2020 Levon Helm We’re all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I’ve had it a lot better than most people. I’ve had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends.
3 December 2020 Carolyn Murphy I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.
3 December 2020 W. C. Fields I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
3 December 2020 Randall Terry How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
3 December 2020 Samuel L. Jackson I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ‘cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.
3 December 2020 Hilary Rosen As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
3 December 2020 Tori Spelling It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, ‘Every kid doesn’t have snow in their backyard on Christmas?’
3 December 2020 Sade Adu I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
3 December 2020 Henning Mankell I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what’s happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
3 December 2020 Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
3 December 2020 Edith Wharton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
3 December 2020 David Millar The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
3 December 2020 Michael Haneke It’s unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they’re like a baby – it’s not so funny.
3 December 2020 Ramana Maharshi No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you’re giving to them.
3 December 2020 Ellen Barkin A successful marriage isn’t necessarily one that lasts until you’re dead.
