3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
3 December 2020 Eminem I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
3 December 2020 Sherri Shepherd I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people’s couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it’s a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it’s so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
3 December 2020 Taryn Manning My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
3 December 2020 Phyllis McGinley Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
3 December 2020 Scott Hamilton What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
3 December 2020 James Naismith I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
3 December 2020 Fiona Shaw A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
3 December 2020 Sophia Loren When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
3 December 2020 Kendrick Meek It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
3 December 2020 Julia Child I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
3 December 2020 Brian Ferneyhough When I speak of ‘cycles,’ I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
3 December 2020 Michael Clarke Duncan The person that’s always talkin’, you don’t have to worry about that person. The person that while you’re in his face, he’s just lookin’ at you with a smile on his face, that’s the guy you worry about.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart My best friend just had a baby, and she’s my age. So I’m a godmom now, which is crazy.
3 December 2020 Keith Haring Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
3 December 2020 Mike Honda My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value – I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
3 December 2020 William J. Clinton When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
3 December 2020 Jon Crosby I guess lyrically they’re similar because they’re talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. ‘The Last One Alive,’ for me, is very simple. It’s just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
3 December 2020 Denise Mina I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn’t realise political writing could be so funny.
3 December 2020 Harold Pinter I mean, don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
