3 December 2020 Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
3 December 2020 John Barton If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
3 December 2020 Christopher Smart For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
3 December 2020 Gail Simmons Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
3 December 2020 Mira Nair New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it’s weird.
3 December 2020 Joey Lauren Adams My life isn’t that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can’t talk on the phone. He’s too crippled and shy, and that’s almost harder. He’s there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it’s just impossible to have a relationship.
3 December 2020 Hugh Mackay The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what’s actually happening to our culture?
3 December 2020 Elvis Presley Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
3 December 2020 Paul Begala I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
3 December 2020 Antonio Banderas I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.
3 December 2020 Joe Frazier When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He’d use his right hand, so I’d have to use my left.
3 December 2020 Robert Benchley You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
3 December 2020 Rashida Jones Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
3 December 2020 Spiro T. Agnew A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
3 December 2020 Diane von Furstenberg I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
3 December 2020 Pico Iyer American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That’s what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson Sometimes you ask God for something and you don’t know what you’re asking.
3 December 2020 LeBron James When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
3 December 2020 Warren Christopher Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn’t that really quite incredible?