3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
3 December 2020 Hesiod Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
3 December 2020 Chuck Yeager Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
3 December 2020 Will Rogers If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
3 December 2020 Frank Sinatra Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing – if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
3 December 2020 Georges Bernanos Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
3 December 2020 John O. Brennan I do not – I never believed it’s better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
3 December 2020 Cal Thomas The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn’t really compete against another team.
3 December 2020 James Buchan In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
3 December 2020 Zach Galifianakis We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I’ve ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’ is, like, really funny.
3 December 2020 Peggy Noonan If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Demme I didn’t go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
3 December 2020 Junichiro Tanizaki We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
3 December 2020 Studs Terkel If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
3 December 2020 Christie Hefner From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money – either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
3 December 2020 Gene Simmons The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
3 December 2020 Chuck Mangione Most recently we’ve been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren’t too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott’s, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Cady Stanton The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
3 December 2020 Charley Pride What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t.
3 December 2020 Emile Hirsch The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.
