3 December 2020 Warren Buffett The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
3 December 2020 Marcello Mastroianni Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
3 December 2020 Bill McCollum The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty.
3 December 2020 Natalie du Toit Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
3 December 2020 Ralph Abernathy I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
3 December 2020 Judith Light I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb – where the word art never came up – to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
3 December 2020 James Fallows The hoary joke in the literary world, based on ‘Dreams From My Father,’ was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
3 December 2020 Ali Larter I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I’m trying my best. So I’ve had a ‘blood, guts and glory’ approach through my whole life.
3 December 2020 Marvin Minsky I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
3 December 2020 Stephen King I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
3 December 2020 Lee Child I’m not really into gourmet food I’m the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.
3 December 2020 Henrik Ibsen The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
3 December 2020 Mark Udall Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That’s why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.
3 December 2020 Ilka Chase Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
3 December 2020 Rick Santorum Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don’t mind big government.
3 December 2020 Cherrie Moraga In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
3 December 2020 Lee Grant People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there’s a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.