3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
3 December 2020 Howard Carter We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Bowen There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
3 December 2020 Sargent Shriver Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
3 December 2020 Koichi Tanaka The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
3 December 2020 Carol Vorderman I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed ‘Countdown in Leeds,’ which was scary. It was sad as he’d been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.
3 December 2020 Charles Krauthammer If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.’
3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
3 December 2020 T. D. Jakes Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
3 December 2020 Eriq La Salle So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don’t respect their intelligence.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
3 December 2020 Alex Haley In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
3 December 2020 David McCallum If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
3 December 2020 Bobby Knight When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it’s all very upfront. I can’t hide it. I’m also loyal and I hope I’m fun.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman I’m happy to report that ‘The New Press’ is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
3 December 2020 Phil Ochs Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.
3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
3 December 2020 Natalie Goldberg Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
3 December 2020 Mike Piazza I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
