3 December 2020 Nick Mason I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I’ve still got the car he was in.
3 December 2020 Helen Hunt Jackson As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
3 December 2020 Larry Speakes Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You’re hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don’t realize it. You’re speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
3 December 2020 Eddie Murphy In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
3 December 2020 Bertolt Brecht Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
3 December 2020 Donna Tartt The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they’re learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.
3 December 2020 Fred Allen We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
3 December 2020 William Graham Sumner A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
3 December 2020 Tom Petty When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
3 December 2020 Stuart Rose Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
3 December 2020 Audre Lorde There’s always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether it’s Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. – because that’s the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
3 December 2020 Jack Layton Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let’s continue to move forward.
3 December 2020 Santigold My mom’s collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I’m not just saying that because she’s my mom. She’s got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
