3 December 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
3 December 2020 Sarah McLachlan Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
3 December 2020 Scott Adams Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
3 December 2020 Garth Brooks There’s a difference between knowing what’s on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
3 December 2020 Robert Ballard I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It’s staggering.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
3 December 2020 Shaun White My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We’ve all been through so much together.
3 December 2020 Raoul Vaneigem Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Archer When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
3 December 2020 Roberto Benigni My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
3 December 2020 William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
3 December 2020 Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
3 December 2020 William Julius Wilson But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and ‘long-form development’ that filmmakers didn’t have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like ‘The Sopranos.’
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
3 December 2020 Luke Bryan I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.
3 December 2020 Ted Turner Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
3 December 2020 John Adams The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
3 December 2020 Jilly Cooper I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
