3 December 2020 Robert Crumb Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It’s kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
3 December 2020 Saint Augustine Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson’s. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there’s freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn’t have otherwise found myself in.
3 December 2020 Mike Singletary Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet.
3 December 2020 Bill Budge I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette It’s a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We’re all such complex creatures. But if I’m going to be a poster child for anything, anger’s a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
3 December 2020 Xenophanes God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’
3 December 2020 John Sununu The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a ‘loophole’ or a tax incentive becomes a ‘subsidy for special interests’ is one of the great mysteries of politics.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Schiller He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
3 December 2020 Christy Mathewson Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
3 December 2020 Audre Lorde It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
3 December 2020 Jay Chiat Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It’s a marvelous opportunity. We’ll keep developing products.
3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
3 December 2020 Gilda Radner While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
3 December 2020 Nikos Kazantzakis Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
3 December 2020 Kamisese Mara The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
3 December 2020 John Dewey The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.