3 December 2020 Jane Smiley I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
3 December 2020 James Irwin The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
3 December 2020 Chen Shui-bian The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
3 December 2020 Thomas Lynch But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody I just go about my life. I’m a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I’m definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I’m a celebrity-adjacent.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
3 December 2020 Peter Steele One of the things I’ve always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change.
3 December 2020 Neal Barnard A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you’ll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
3 December 2020 Seth Grahame-Smith But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
3 December 2020 John Strachan To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
3 December 2020 Ron Taffel Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
3 December 2020 Javier Bardem But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn’t a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
3 December 2020 Russell Baker I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando You can’t really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
3 December 2020 Rachel Weisz I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas I still absolutely love ‘The Sound of Music’ and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
3 December 2020 Kate Clinton A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell’s Soup kid.
3 December 2020 Henry J. Kaiser Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.
