3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
3 December 2020 Clive Anderson You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
3 December 2020 Michael Caine I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
3 December 2020 David Wilkerson Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
3 December 2020 Henri Bergson To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones It’s true, there’s a lot of melancholy in my music. I don’t know why, I’m not a melancholy person. I’ve always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem I’d like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I’d have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
3 December 2020 Paul Ince The best player I’ve ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.
3 December 2020 Peter Tork The four of us couldn’t have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning ’til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
3 December 2020 Paul Tillich Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
3 December 2020 Gary Neville A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
3 December 2020 Nia Long I said ‘Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.’ He said, ‘oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don’t worry about it.’ But they’re not.
3 December 2020 Emma Goldman All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
3 December 2020 Robert Caro The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
3 December 2020 Leonard Cohen To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
3 December 2020 Andy Murray I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
3 December 2020 Laura Bush I mean, the part you don’t like, I mean, that’s the only part. That’s the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that’s also just a fact of life in politics.
3 December 2020 William Osler To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
3 December 2020 Cher I don’t like Bush. I don’t trust him. I don’t like his record. He’s stupid. He’s lazy.
