3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.
3 December 2020 Ian MacKaye I’m always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
3 December 2020 Nicholson Baker When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
3 December 2020 Scott Thompson When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he’s always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that’s what makes him Newt Gingrich.
3 December 2020 Luc Montagnier I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don’t take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It’s like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.
3 December 2020 Stuart Rose There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.
3 December 2020 Hakeem Olajuwon I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
3 December 2020 George Allen, Sr. Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can.
3 December 2020 Mike Myers I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.
3 December 2020 David Thewlis I’d had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time – a Lancashire girl. I thought: ‘It’s a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn’t I realize it?’
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
3 December 2020 Donald Sadoway People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn’t live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
3 December 2020 George Eliot In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
3 December 2020 Vito Fossella One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.