3 December 2020 Deborah Norville There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
3 December 2020 Jacques Pepin I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called ‘Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,’ was about saving time and money in the kitchen – and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.
3 December 2020 John Ashbery There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
3 December 2020 Amy Tan I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
3 December 2020 Lucille Ball In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
3 December 2020 Jay London I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
3 December 2020 William R. Alger After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
3 December 2020 Leo Rosten I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
3 December 2020 Marc Newson Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that’s how I started.
3 December 2020 Tom Conti When the plane is delayed, it’s not the fault of the girl at the desk. I’m resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
3 December 2020 Sarah Jessica Parker I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
3 December 2020 Don Henley Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole Knowledge of God’s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
3 December 2020 O. Henry There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi People always comment about my clothes. They don’t think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
