3 December 2020 David Attenborough It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Icaza We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we’re learning from them.
3 December 2020 John Milius Also, they don’t understand – writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Anger Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
3 December 2020 Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it’s some kind of quality isn’t it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
3 December 2020 Yahoo Serious Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
3 December 2020 John H. Johnson It’s better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
3 December 2020 Corin Nemec I’ve done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I’ve compiled a book of poetry that’s completed, and two others I’m working on.
3 December 2020 Thomas Kinkade The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
3 December 2020 Frank Herbert If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
3 December 2020 Jessica Lange I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy’s actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
3 December 2020 Wolfgang Schauble In the long term, Germany didn’t need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
3 December 2020 Catherine Deneuve Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
3 December 2020 John le Carre The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Reaser I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility – I wouldn’t even know how to articulate it – it’s just, he’s a very sensitive, interesting guy.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
3 December 2020 Ismail Haniyeh Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
