3 December 2020 Mary Oliver It’s very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can’t wait until morning – it’ll be gone.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
3 December 2020 Channing Tatum I’m thankful for weird people out there ’cause they’re some of the most creative people.
3 December 2020 Willie Nelson I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
3 December 2020 Brittany Snow I didn’t really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn’t think it was going to be that emotional. I don’t think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera Whatever I do, it’s my business. It’s not my job to parent America.
3 December 2020 James Tobin My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
3 December 2020 William Shatner The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of ‘disinterest’ strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world – out of six billion people, more than three billion – do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper When I was growing up my mother would say, ‘Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him’.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Collier In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
3 December 2020 Anatole France We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
3 December 2020 John Engler The parent knows instinctively that if they’re working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
3 December 2020 Michael Ondaatje In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient’s mind.
3 December 2020 Michael Weatherly My wife gets pampered pretty well. She’s had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
