3 December 2020 Jane Smiley Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
3 December 2020 Clive Bell Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
3 December 2020 Paul Keating I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
3 December 2020 Hattie McDaniel We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
3 December 2020 Mel Brooks Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
3 December 2020 Dean Acheson The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
3 December 2020 Lindsay Lohan I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
3 December 2020 Wendell Berry Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mitchell The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
3 December 2020 John Searle I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
3 December 2020 Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
3 December 2020 Edward Furlong But I’m not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
3 December 2020 Kim Weston I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
3 December 2020 Pat Riley There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
