3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.
3 December 2020 Gayle King I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
3 December 2020 Frank Zappa If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
3 December 2020 David Boreanaz I wanted to play sports my whole life. That’s all I really wanted to do.
3 December 2020 Willie Mays At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
3 December 2020 Carlos Ghosn When you’re CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
3 December 2020 Sebastian Vettel There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
3 December 2020 Uma Thurman I was not particularly bright, I wasn’t very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
3 December 2020 Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
3 December 2020 Brett Favre Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
3 December 2020 Willie Nelson I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money.
3 December 2020 Charles Bukowski Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
3 December 2020 Monica Seles I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
3 December 2020 Vinny Guadagnino My house has always been like everyone’s house. You walk in, you’re a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same – with love from my mom.
3 December 2020 Marion Ross But if you don’t watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
3 December 2020 Gary Vaynerchuk I’m a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
