3 December 2020 Mark Haddon I don’t remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
3 December 2020 James Norman Hall Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
3 December 2020 Mark Zandi The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
3 December 2020 Adam Carolla People look at me, and they go, ‘You’re white, you’re smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.’
3 December 2020 Olga Korbut Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
3 December 2020 Mike Krzyzewski The thing I loved the most – and still love the most about teaching – is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett I do not knowingly kill any living thing – including insects or rodents – and I thank my food for sustaining me.
3 December 2020 Ernie Harwell I’ve found that if you wear a beret, people think you’re either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
3 December 2020 Ellen Burstyn What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
3 December 2020 Morris Dees The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
3 December 2020 Jay Weatherill If we wish our state’s growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is my work, and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
3 December 2020 Gabrielle Reece Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it’s not going to change my situation.
3 December 2020 Dennis Potter Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe.
3 December 2020 Peter Fonda If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
3 December 2020 Bryan Adams There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
3 December 2020 Dominic Cooper I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
3 December 2020 John Greenleaf Whittier For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
