3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Kenny Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
3 December 2020 John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
3 December 2020 R. Kelly They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.
3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
3 December 2020 Taraji P. Henson Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
3 December 2020 Tom Peters The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
3 December 2020 Louis Pasteur When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
3 December 2020 William Wordsworth Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
3 December 2020 Eddie Izzard There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
3 December 2020 Jerry Leiber I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was ‘Ain’t Nobody’s Business.’ It got me. I thought, ‘I can do this.’ I decided just like that. No romantic story.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don’t learn, then it’s an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you’re able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
3 December 2020 Carrie-Anne Moss Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally – and being an actor you have that freedom.
3 December 2020 Bobby Cannavale I’m getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.
