3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
3 December 2020 Martina McBride I was into all kinds of music as a teen – country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
3 December 2020 Duane Michals I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
3 December 2020 David Zucker It’s useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
3 December 2020 Joseph Rotblat Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
3 December 2020 Jean Genet The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
3 December 2020 Wilbur Smith My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.
3 December 2020 Giorgos Seferis For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
3 December 2020 Rita Mae Brown You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that’s it.
3 December 2020 Desmond Morris No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
3 December 2020 Ken Kesey Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
3 December 2020 Will Rogers The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
3 December 2020 Lil Wayne The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
3 December 2020 John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
3 December 2020 Douglas Horton As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
