3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
3 December 2020 Will Cuppy Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
3 December 2020 Stephen King I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.
3 December 2020 Liz Phair I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.
3 December 2020 Confucius The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.
3 December 2020 Michael Weatherly I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying ‘optimistic positive.’
3 December 2020 David James Elliott Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe – that all they’re interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they’re interested in learning something.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
3 December 2020 David Amram Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
3 December 2020 David Suzuki We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.
3 December 2020 Michael Eisner Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
3 December 2020 Heather Morris I’ve wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up – and I wrote ‘a famous singer!’
3 December 2020 Wayne Gretzky I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual… and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
3 December 2020 William Styron Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
3 December 2020 Madame Swetchine We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
3 December 2020 Christopher Walken I’ll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
3 December 2020 Shailene Woodley I’m already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
3 December 2020 L. Wolfe Gilbert Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
3 December 2020 Stephen Daldry I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it’s a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I’ve always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
