3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
3 December 2020 Henry Kravis I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men’s college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
3 December 2020 Bo Jackson I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
3 December 2020 John Clayton There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.
3 December 2020 Jaime Hernandez Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful – I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
3 December 2020 John Updike Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
3 December 2020 Diane Wakoski I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
3 December 2020 George Mikes On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
3 December 2020 Bobby Flay Don’t try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on ‘Food Network.’
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
3 December 2020 John Woolman I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
3 December 2020 Ben Hogan Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?
3 December 2020 Karl Popper Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Katzenberg What I love most about animation is, it’s a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’d be dead.’
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn’t so good.
3 December 2020 George Byron Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
3 December 2020 Gifford Pinchot The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
3 December 2020 James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
3 December 2020 Mary Pickford You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
3 December 2020 John Updike Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
3 December 2020 Randy Newman Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it’s really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
