3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
3 December 2020 Tyson Gay My daughter’s mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I’m most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.
3 December 2020 Frank Gehry For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
3 December 2020 Paul Berg That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
3 December 2020 Fidel Castro I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
3 December 2020 Isla Fisher All I know is that I’ve ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that’s not cool anymore.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
3 December 2020 John Avlon One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
3 December 2020 Eric Liu My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We’d just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I’ve got $26 left.
3 December 2020 Will Champion Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
3 December 2020 Trishelle Cannatella Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
3 December 2020 Alexis Bledel It gets kinda monotonous, but that’s television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
3 December 2020 William Gurnall The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan’s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
3 December 2020 Bill Budge Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
3 December 2020 Rick Larsen We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
