3 December 2020 Harry Nilsson I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it’s pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
3 December 2020 Samuel Foote When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
3 December 2020 Liev Schreiber Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It’s such a bizarre experience. I don’t think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you’re probably not that good anymore.
3 December 2020 Adam Savage It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
3 December 2020 Paul Hindemith There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Edwards Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
3 December 2020 Isaac Newton I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
3 December 2020 George Deukmejian The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
3 December 2020 Iain Banks I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you’re frightened of is to make fun of it. That’s why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I just hope that theaters remain. I think there’s something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There’s something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
3 December 2020 Christopher Eccleston Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down’s Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
3 December 2020 Taylor Swift In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.
3 December 2020 Bob Graham The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
3 December 2020 Gio Gonzalez I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.
3 December 2020 Christopher Darden I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
3 December 2020 Freddie Mercury I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
3 December 2020 Johann Sebastian Bach Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
3 December 2020 Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
3 December 2020 Esther Dyson Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.
3 December 2020 James Levine Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
3 December 2020 Harriet Martineau It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
