3 December 2020 Jean Henri Fabre Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
3 December 2020 Jack Prelutsky Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
3 December 2020 Roger Goodell The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, ‘I made my parents proud.’
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk My goal is more to be remembered. They’ll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
3 December 2020 Simon Cowell I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
3 December 2020 Sally Field Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
3 December 2020 Jeb Bush My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.
3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
3 December 2020 Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
3 December 2020 Johnny Vegas I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don’t seem to be particularly keen on them.
3 December 2020 Chelsea Clinton I hope telling stories though ‘Making a Difference’ – as in my academic work and nonprofit work – will help me to live my grandmother’s adage of ‘Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.’
3 December 2020 John Patrick Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.
3 December 2020 Shirley Manson I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
3 December 2020 Juan Antonio Samaranch We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
3 December 2020 Laura Prepon I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It’s really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
3 December 2020 Adrienne Rich The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
3 December 2020 Kilari Anand Paul Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It’s the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
