3 December 2020 John Thorn For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
3 December 2020 June Jordan The courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
3 December 2020 Christiane Amanpour If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
3 December 2020 Haile Gebrselassie I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people’s eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
3 December 2020 Danica McKellar My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there’s a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that’s the way I’d like to convey them myself.
3 December 2020 Bootsy Collins I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I’d like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton I’m so sick of hearing how there’s no strong roles for women. I don’t care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there’s some depth there.
3 December 2020 Dennis Bergkamp I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
3 December 2020 Tom DeLonge Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
3 December 2020 Leon Kass There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
3 December 2020 W. C. Fields Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.
3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don’t even notice it any more. It’s just my reality.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Kluger As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don’t adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
3 December 2020 Carl T. Rowan We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
3 December 2020 Rachel Bilson My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That’s like a sports thing, it’s not usually a comedy and writing thing.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Irons We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
3 December 2020 Uma Thurman I’m an actress and mom, and I probably don’t have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don’t know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don’t actually practise them.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
3 December 2020 Alan K. Simpson Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Roeg And later I thought, I can’t think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
