3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
3 December 2020 Rachel Maddow I’m not a screamer. I’m confrontational, but I don’t think that translates into anger.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
3 December 2020 Buffalo Bill Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Hacker As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Icaza Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else’s patent.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
3 December 2020 Jim Hightower There’s enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level – everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
3 December 2020 Camryn Manheim Isn’t it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
3 December 2020 Carol Alt If I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.
3 December 2020 Chris Isaak I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don’t even have a push-button radio. It’s just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you’re driving, that’s all I want.
3 December 2020 Daniel Carter Beard We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.
3 December 2020 Glen Hansard My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that’s there. I want to get it all out.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
3 December 2020 George Tenet By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
3 December 2020 William Dean Howells The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
3 December 2020 Jean-Luc Godard I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig It doesn’t matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
3 December 2020 Norman Vincent Peale Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of ‘Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?’ Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you’re so content.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
3 December 2020 Chris Anderson And what’s interesting about the hybrids taking off is you’ve now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It’s the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
