3 December 2020 Salma Hayek I love being a wife and homemaker – because it’s my choice. My husband doesn’t expect me to do it. I don’t mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Grahame After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
3 December 2020 Evita Peron If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.
3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
3 December 2020 Louis Pasteur Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
3 December 2020 Miriam Makeba Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people’s ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion As for how criticism of Keats’ poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I’ll leave that for others to decide.
3 December 2020 Mary Pickford Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
3 December 2020 Shimon Peres When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.
3 December 2020 Alexander Wang When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that’s where I started.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
3 December 2020 Barbara Olson There is one question that I don’t think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
3 December 2020 Paula Radcliffe Yeah, ideally, I’d probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
3 December 2020 Edward Steichen Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
3 December 2020 Pearl Bailey I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
3 December 2020 Rachel Stevens I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
3 December 2020 Mary Cheney It wasn’t a secret that I was gay. I’d come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
3 December 2020 Vinoba Bhave If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
3 December 2020 Eileen Caddy Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
