3 December 2020 Elton John The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you’re able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
3 December 2020 Chanakya There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
3 December 2020 Robert Griffin III I’m a military kid, both parents in the military – Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
3 December 2020 Ignatius Loyola The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
3 December 2020 James Thurber Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
3 December 2020 Gary Ryan Blair We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
3 December 2020 Henry Miller We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.
3 December 2020 Patti Stanger I’m on the Sensa diet. It’s a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh’s clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you’re full through smellology.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage I was always shocked when I went to the doctor’s office and they did my X-ray and didn’t find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
3 December 2020 Lord Byron Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
3 December 2020 John Sandford There’s something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple’s first meeting.
3 December 2020 Christina Rossetti She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
3 December 2020 Richard Ford Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
3 December 2020 Israel Zangwill Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.
3 December 2020 Black Elk And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
3 December 2020 Rashida Jones My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it’s because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
3 December 2020 Bill Nighy I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.