3 December 2020 Malcolm X You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
3 December 2020 Arthur Machen Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
3 December 2020 Dan Fouts One of the great things personally coming to Hawai’i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
3 December 2020 William Irwin Thompson Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
3 December 2020 Peter Davison Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
3 December 2020 Lee Ryan I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
3 December 2020 George Saunders I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he’s made of sugar.
3 December 2020 Sarah McLachlan I didn’t get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
3 December 2020 George Raft Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
3 December 2020 Althea Gibson In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
3 December 2020 Cindy Crawford I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.
3 December 2020 Juan Goytisolo And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain’s condition.
3 December 2020 Ira Gershwin Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.
3 December 2020 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle.
3 December 2020 Robert Collier Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn’t do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
3 December 2020 Roger Goodell It’s an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.
