3 December 2020 Emily Giffin Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
3 December 2020 William Congreve Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
3 December 2020 Frank Ocean I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
3 December 2020 Alexei Sayle As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
3 December 2020 Ayumi Hamasaki I don’t set goals. Like, that’s what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that’s what I’d do. Or design clothes.
3 December 2020 Tommy Cooper A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
3 December 2020 Brooklyn Decker The ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, ‘You know what, I really… I don’t want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.’ And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.
3 December 2020 Sydney Brenner I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
3 December 2020 John Legend Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it’s all a part of what we consider to be ‘black music.’ There is a natural synergy between the three.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
3 December 2020 William Feather An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
3 December 2020 Chris Chocola The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.
3 December 2020 Hugh Grant The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
3 December 2020 Kirk Douglas Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that’s what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
3 December 2020 Julius Erving I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
3 December 2020 Xun Zi When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
3 December 2020 Richard Gough I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it’s something I pride myself on.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
3 December 2020 Juliet Stevenson I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don’t know what the alternative would have been.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Onassis It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
