3 December 2020 Stephen Sondheim Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall.
3 December 2020 Ivan Pavlov Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
3 December 2020 Joe Nichols The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It’s 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It’s a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.
3 December 2020 Thomas E. Mann All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn’t have that experience.
3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
3 December 2020 Arthur Levitt Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
3 December 2020 Nicholas Hoult I’ve got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody’s equal.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
3 December 2020 Patrick Wilson I love making movies, but there’s nothing like being in front of an audience.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
3 December 2020 Chris Chocola By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients and that is exactly where it should be.
3 December 2020 Ben Elton Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
3 December 2020 Virginia Satir Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
3 December 2020 Cliff Richard But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won’t fear that failure.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We’re gonna have QE3. We’re gonna print some more money.
3 December 2020 Ashley Greene Yeah, I get to fight in ‘Eclipse.’ My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.
3 December 2020 Rosalind Wiseman I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
3 December 2020 Craig Johnston So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.
3 December 2020 Will Estes But, on another level it’s really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
3 December 2020 Marie Corelli You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
3 December 2020 Walter Pater What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
3 December 2020 E. B. White When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
