3 December 2020 William Masters Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham ‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history’s going to be kind to George W. Bush.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
3 December 2020 Minoru Yamasaki If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
3 December 2020 Martina Hingis He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you’re at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.
3 December 2020 Tom Harkin Let’s face it, in America today we don’t have a health care system, we have a sick care system.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. I’ve met a lot of people who’ve lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
3 December 2020 Bruce Cockburn I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.
3 December 2020 William James ‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
3 December 2020 Lucinda Williams Some of their best songs don’t have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn’t need to change anything.
3 December 2020 Zosia Mamet My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
3 December 2020 Alex Winter The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
3 December 2020 Nigel Farage The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
3 December 2020 Sacha Guitry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
3 December 2020 Gavyn Davies It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
