3 December 2020 Fyodor Dostoevsky A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
3 December 2020 Giorgio de Chirico To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart I don’t want to discredit people’s individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That’s acting.
3 December 2020 Catherine Deneuve I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
3 December 2020 George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
3 December 2020 Lord Acton I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
3 December 2020 Karl A. Menninger Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
3 December 2020 Lafcadio Hearn It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
3 December 2020 J. R. Martinez My father left… but I tell my mom – and I told my mom this when I was a kid – I said, ‘You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you’re a strong woman.’
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
3 December 2020 Jane Pauley Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.
3 December 2020 Eminem The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
3 December 2020 Edward Thorndike Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody People don’t have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
