3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
3 December 2020 James Brown I’m kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
3 December 2020 Rosalind Wiseman So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Mclaren Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
3 December 2020 Jacqueline Bisset A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
3 December 2020 Ulysses S. Grant Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
3 December 2020 Abu Bakr There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
3 December 2020 Kristen Wiig I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with me?’
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we’ve ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
3 December 2020 Horace The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
3 December 2020 Irwin Shaw The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
3 December 2020 George Eliot When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
3 December 2020 Pete Townshend What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
3 December 2020 Samuel L. Jackson I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O’Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw ‘The Negro’ get one over on ‘The Man.’
3 December 2020 George Saunders If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too.
3 December 2020 Cynthia Heimel Never judge someone by who he’s in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
3 December 2020 Tom Dempsey The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
