3 December 2020 Billy Corgan One thing I’ve learned to appreciate as I’ve gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
3 December 2020 Blanche Lincoln It’s not my job to dream your dreams. It’s my job to make your dreams become a reality.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein We didn’t care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie – that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we’re getting the same results in more subtle ways.
3 December 2020 Joseph Franklin Rutherford The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
3 December 2020 Thomas a Kempis Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.
3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
3 December 2020 Anton Seidl It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
3 December 2020 Anna Sui Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
3 December 2020 Stone Gossard Well, you go to Holland and everybody’s on a bike – nobody would think to have a car.
3 December 2020 David R. Brower All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
3 December 2020 Mitch McConnell We all know that Social Security is one of this country’s greatest success stories in the 20th century.
3 December 2020 Janine Turner I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
3 December 2020 William Safire If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
3 December 2020 Jack Kilby I’m sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.