3 December 2020 Italo Calvino The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
3 December 2020 Michael Nesmith It’s clear that people are going to download media files, and they’re going to talk to each other, and they’re going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
3 December 2020 Danielle Steel It’s been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.
3 December 2020 Nora Ephron With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
3 December 2020 Kyle Chandler When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don’t know what you’re going to see.
3 December 2020 John Moody In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time – the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Fallon We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.
3 December 2020 Penn Jillette Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
3 December 2020 Frances E. Willard In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
3 December 2020 James Cronin In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
3 December 2020 Joe Paterno Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
3 December 2020 Yitzhak Rabin We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
3 December 2020 David Thewlis It wasn’t a good idea to work on ‘Naked’ in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
3 December 2020 Soulja Boy I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask ‘Are you Soulja Boy?’ If people want pictures or autographs, that’s cool, but I don’t like the dumb questions.
3 December 2020 Tom Petty Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
3 December 2020 Julia Morgan My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
3 December 2020 Drew Carey There’s no way I can justify my salary level, but I’m learning to live with it.
3 December 2020 Dana Plato I’ve learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I think when you’re 10 years old, it’s too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
3 December 2020 Jill Scott When I first became famous, I didn’t know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn’t know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn’t know what to do with that.
3 December 2020 Tracy Kidder The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
3 December 2020 Paul D. Boyer Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
3 December 2020 Robert Smith I really enjoy what I do, and who I’m with and where I am. Having said that, I’m not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
