3 December 2020 Truman Capote Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
3 December 2020 Ben Harper Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
3 December 2020 Giuliana Rancic I’m from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.
3 December 2020 David Sanborn In regard to music, I just think that it’s always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there’s always something new to learn.
3 December 2020 Robert Shea One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
3 December 2020 John Hodgman Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
3 December 2020 O. J. Simpson I could not tell you the date of my mother’s death. I could not tell you the date of my dad’s death. These are not dates that I find significant.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Donovan My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It’s not worse than anybody else’s life.
3 December 2020 Chris Elliott That’s what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who’s looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
3 December 2020 Fergie Luckily I don’t have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I’m off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up – I had to have them.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
3 December 2020 Matt Groening We’ve got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It’s bizarre, and they’re writing some very funny stuff.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
3 December 2020 Susana Martinez My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
3 December 2020 Peter Agre Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
3 December 2020 James Dyson I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you’ll be very highly paid once you’ve got them.
3 December 2020 Julia Louis-Dreyfus Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.
3 December 2020 Jack Kemp The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
3 December 2020 Joanna Newsom In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
