3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
3 December 2020 Carre Otis I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
3 December 2020 Anne Campbell There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It’s highly, highly polarised. It’s right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
3 December 2020 Daniel Kahneman When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
3 December 2020 Roger Clemens Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It’s not anger, it’s motivation.
3 December 2020 Norman Mailer There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
3 December 2020 George Whitefield Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
3 December 2020 Ray Dalio It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
3 December 2020 Lesley Garrett That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
3 December 2020 Ilie Nastase If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
3 December 2020 Bill Watterson I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
3 December 2020 Bruce Sterling I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
3 December 2020 Willie Nelson I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
3 December 2020 Arne Jacobsen When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that’s all right.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
3 December 2020 Alvin Adams Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
3 December 2020 William J. Clinton There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
3 December 2020 Ian Hislop All the libel lawyers will tell you there’s no libel any more, that everyone’s given up.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.
3 December 2020 Camille Pissarro I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely.
3 December 2020 Heath Ledger I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
