3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
3 December 2020 Peter Welch Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation’s faith and credit seriously.
3 December 2020 Martin Farquhar Tupper A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
3 December 2020 Woody Allen There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
3 December 2020 Bobby Darin I’m more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We’re still married as parents.
3 December 2020 David Shuster If Michael Steele doesn’t make you sad, well, then there’s radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.
3 December 2020 Francis Maude I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
3 December 2020 Rachel McAdams I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in ‘Morning Glory’ with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
3 December 2020 Virgil Thomson I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
3 December 2020 Carroll O'Connor Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
3 December 2020 Bobby Darin Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let’s hope they make out as well as I did.
3 December 2020 Laura Linney I think everyone’s experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they’re living and the relationships that they have.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
3 December 2020 Fritz Todt The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
