3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
3 December 2020 Lytton Strachey The old interests of aristocracy – the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war – faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
3 December 2020 William Kingdon Clifford When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton It’s not common for a woman on television, especially if she’s the mom of the family, to be funny. She’s usually a straight man or foil.
3 December 2020 Tony Shalhoub I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
3 December 2020 Saint Teresa of Avila Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
3 December 2020 Lana Del Rey I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.
3 December 2020 Debbie Harry But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
3 December 2020 Yoko Ono What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
3 December 2020 Tom Tancredo They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
3 December 2020 Zach Braff I’m a person who likes these sort of movies… sad but moving ‘art movies’ that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
3 December 2020 Anna Torv My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends.
3 December 2020 Aimee Mann I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
3 December 2020 Bobby Flay I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It’s a really cool place.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
3 December 2020 Amber Tamblyn I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
3 December 2020 Michael Arad For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
