3 December 2020 Doris Lessing I think kids ought to travel. I think it’s very good to carry kids around. It’s good for them. Of course it’s tough on the parents.
3 December 2020 Herman Kahn A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive – especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it’s great that now, 25 years later, we’re not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That’s really exciting for us.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
3 December 2020 William H. Seward The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
3 December 2020 Lewis Hallam A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
3 December 2020 Brock Yates The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
3 December 2020 Corey Feldman Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
3 December 2020 Don King If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you’ll get back cash. If you don’t have faith, you’ll get soggy bread.
3 December 2020 Jim Morrison Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown I say grace. I’m a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I’m pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I’m also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want – and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
3 December 2020 Andrew Motion I’m not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
3 December 2020 Ellie Kemper My painting teacher in high school used to say, ‘I can’t paint like I want to, but through practice I’ll get better.’ But I don’t think that’s true. I think sometimes you just can’t paint.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
