3 December 2020 Erika Slezak And at five o’clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.
3 December 2020 James Thurber The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
3 December 2020 Anthony Storr The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
3 December 2020 Malcom X History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
3 December 2020 Eric Butterworth Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
3 December 2020 Anjelica Huston I don’t think it’s necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
3 December 2020 Jenny Agutter I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn’t give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they’ve brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
3 December 2020 Oliver North I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
3 December 2020 Clive Owen Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies.
3 December 2020 Ralph Lauren People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
3 December 2020 Patti Stanger A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
3 December 2020 Brendan Fraser I’m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren’t amending they’re shifting.
3 December 2020 Travis Barker I was a kid, and I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.
3 December 2020 Michael Kinsley In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn’t remember the interview.
