3 December 2020 John Lennon My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
3 December 2020 Michel Foucault Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
3 December 2020 John Steinbeck A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
3 December 2020 Roy Orbison I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
3 December 2020 Petrarch Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
3 December 2020 Paul M. Glaser The car is a character in the piece – I’ve never liked the car, I submitted to it’s objectionable popularity.
3 December 2020 Jenson Button I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don’t think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can’t get the car there I do struggle more than some.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
3 December 2020 Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
3 December 2020 Harlan Coben ‘Caught’ is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present – who should be and who shouldn’t be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won’t work.
3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl Isn’t it so weird the day you wake up and you’re just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
3 December 2020 Kirsty Gallacher The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.
3 December 2020 Picabo Street I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you’re living in a home that’s dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don’t dream like that.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner People shouldn’t trust artists and they shouldn’t trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert If a movie isn’t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
3 December 2020 George Combe They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson In God’s world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
3 December 2020 Chris Messina What’s monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning – the waiting around.
3 December 2020 Jhumpa Lahiri I’ve never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people’s computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I’ve opened email accounts, twice actually, but it’s something I don’t want in my life right now.
3 December 2020 Marla Gibbs The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don’t see enough positive role models in their own environment.
3 December 2020 Patricia Velasquez I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
