3 December 2020 Susan Orlean Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things – the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
3 December 2020 Paul Getty A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
3 December 2020 David Hyde Pierce I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it’s a good job that will continue.
3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
3 December 2020 Ann Wilson People can’t just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
3 December 2020 Saul Williams Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment – that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
3 December 2020 Martina McBride Faith that it’s not always in your hands or things don’t always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
3 December 2020 John Oates If you look over the years, the styles have changed – the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it’s really the same.
3 December 2020 Alice Cooper We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
3 December 2020 Jessica Savitch No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
3 December 2020 Confucius The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
3 December 2020 E. Stanley Jones Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
3 December 2020 Pierre Bayle It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.
3 December 2020 Chely Wright I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
3 December 2020 Norman Mailer The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?
3 December 2020 Shawn Johnson I’m doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
3 December 2020 Larry Hagman I’d like to play Matt Damon’s daddy. He’s a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I’d like to play his dad one day.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
