3 December 2020 Channing Tatum I’m not pretty. The truth is I didn’t think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself ‘Jesus Christ. I can’t do this. I don’t look anything like these guys’.
3 December 2020 Roger Ascham In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
3 December 2020 Brandy Norwood There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.
3 December 2020 Otto Dix As a young man you don’t notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
3 December 2020 Len Wein Sometimes you’re not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I’ve written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
3 December 2020 Bear Bryant I want to make sure I don’t interfere with the success of that team next year. I don’t see any way I could go to practice like most of ’em do, and not hurt the team. I’d go nuts if I tried doing that.
3 December 2020 Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
3 December 2020 Robert Walpole Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
3 December 2020 Matt Damon My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn’t have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
3 December 2020 Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
3 December 2020 Gabriel Byrne Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
3 December 2020 James Lane Allen To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
3 December 2020 Cliff Stearns Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
3 December 2020 Anne Stevenson I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
3 December 2020 LaToya Jackson People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
3 December 2020 Jamie Oliver The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
3 December 2020 Tyra Banks I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carper That’s not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
3 December 2020 Garry Kasparov I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it’s not a western invention.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.
