3 December 2020 Roman Coppola Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad’s ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister’s wedding there. It was beautiful.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
3 December 2020 Krista Allen Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They’re consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.
3 December 2020 James Madison War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
3 December 2020 Theo James What I like about the ‘Underworld’ thing is that it’s a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.
3 December 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
3 December 2020 George Edward Woodberry ‘Old times’ never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.
3 December 2020 Geraldo Rivera The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
3 December 2020 Tim Gunn I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I’m vulnerable too and each one of us is.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
3 December 2020 John Olver We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.
3 December 2020 Sarah Brightman I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.
3 December 2020 Richard Powers What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando If I can create some space that people haven’t experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that’s the kind of structure I seek to create.
3 December 2020 Charles Kendall Adams No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
3 December 2020 Michael Korda Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
3 December 2020 Jack Nicholson Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
3 December 2020 Dick Wolf When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.
3 December 2020 Stanley Baldwin I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
3 December 2020 James McGreevey No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a ‘mortal sin’ subject to damnation.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.