3 December 2020 Quintilian The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
3 December 2020 Mira Nair I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That’s what I hope to do when I make a film – to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
3 December 2020 Martin Farquhar Tupper Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
3 December 2020 Lance Reddick I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in, but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults and when I say ‘great for adults,’ it doesn’t mean without humor, because I’m also interested in doing comedy.
3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.
3 December 2020 John Sculley We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
3 December 2020 Alphonse de Lamartine Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God’s business.
3 December 2020 Bob Uecker I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
3 December 2020 Alain de Botton Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
3 December 2020 Frances Wright Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
3 December 2020 Andy Kaufman I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut – or get angry from the gut.
3 December 2020 Jai Rodriguez When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
3 December 2020 Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.
3 December 2020 David Walliams The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I’d say a food mixer. I’ve never used it, I don’t really know what they’re for.