3 December 2020 Umberto Eco Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
3 December 2020 Whitfield Diffie I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it’s all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
3 December 2020 Johnny Isakson Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
3 December 2020 Ray Manzarek I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can’t really think of anyone who’s done anything like it since.
3 December 2020 Michael Nutter The federal government… knows how to put a missile in someone’s room half way around the world with technology. Why don’t we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?
3 December 2020 Robert Caro Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
3 December 2020 Roger Kahn I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
3 December 2020 Henri Bergson Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
3 December 2020 Aeschylus It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
3 December 2020 Mary Kay Ash Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
3 December 2020 Charlize Theron I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son.
3 December 2020 Rick Renzi If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.
3 December 2020 Curt Schilling Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It’s an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
3 December 2020 Francis Wright Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
3 December 2020 P. G. Wodehouse Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
3 December 2020 Aubrey Plaza I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it’s meaningful, and I like the song. It’s a love song – kind of – but it’s kind of depressing and dark.
3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
3 December 2020 Benicio Del Toro My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
