3 December 2020 John Pomfret The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
3 December 2020 Vicente Aleixandre Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.
3 December 2020 Randy Forbes While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
3 December 2020 Alan Bennett Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.
3 December 2020 Ahmed Ben Bella Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.
3 December 2020 Sting I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
3 December 2020 Jim Wallis So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, ‘Where is faith being put into action here?’
3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
3 December 2020 Lance Bass I’m at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there’s really nothing else that I worry about.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
3 December 2020 Confucius He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Death comes in a flash, and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film.
3 December 2020 Golda Meir The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
3 December 2020 Jack Bowman My art and poetry is very political now. Because you’ve got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
3 December 2020 Jean M. Auel Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
