3 December 2020 Rita Rudner Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus – there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
3 December 2020 Paula Poundstone I’m thankful for Sarah Palin’s vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
3 December 2020 Joe Slovo When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn’t expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn’t always hold.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that’s becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
3 December 2020 Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
3 December 2020 Martin Lewis Perl I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
3 December 2020 Kelly Osbourne I’m an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding Mumford & Sons’ music appeals to a lot of America. I’m really proud of them.
3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
3 December 2020 John McKinley We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.
3 December 2020 Nile Rodgers Trust me, the only real way to understand ‘Chic’ is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early ‘Chic’ records to impress my jazz friends.
3 December 2020 Jason Ritter I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said ‘You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.’
3 December 2020 George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
3 December 2020 Nina Simone Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
3 December 2020 Chevy Chase Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
3 December 2020 Graham Coxon Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it’s difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you’ve got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
3 December 2020 Seth Lloyd Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it’s story heavy, it’s about ideas.
3 December 2020 Ray Liotta The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
