3 December 2020 Susan Orlean My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
3 December 2020 John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
3 December 2020 Paul Davies Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
3 December 2020 Daniel Yergin The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans’ surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
3 December 2020 Kesha I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’ So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
3 December 2020 Harold Pinter I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
3 December 2020 Robert Mapplethorpe I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.
3 December 2020 Jessica Simpson I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate’s faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
3 December 2020 James Van Der Zee Happiness is perfume, you can’t pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
3 December 2020 Charles Vest For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
3 December 2020 Mary Wesley Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car.
3 December 2020 Josef Albers It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Durrell Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
3 December 2020 Mary Richards It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
3 December 2020 Hugo Pratt For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
