3 December 2020 Moses Hadas The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
3 December 2020 Mary Oliver When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
3 December 2020 Dennis Kucinich You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I’m not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.
3 December 2020 Taylor Swift I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
3 December 2020 Ben Stiller Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
3 December 2020 James Levine It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is – like Verdi said – working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra’s collective qualities emerge.
3 December 2020 Sarah Palin Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
3 December 2020 Dido Armstrong In fact, I’d just like to own something. Everyone thinks I’m glamorous, rich and famous but all I’ve got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
3 December 2020 Pat Robertson Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
3 December 2020 Colin Hay I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
3 December 2020 Story Musgrave It’s hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
3 December 2020 Rachael Ray I don’t think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn’t marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
3 December 2020 Tracey Gold Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I’ve never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
3 December 2020 Gerry Adams The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
3 December 2020 Juan Manuel Fangio The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
3 December 2020 Liz Phair I’ve lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
