3 December 2020 Billy Joel When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
3 December 2020 Gail Simmons I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie’s in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
3 December 2020 Al Gore I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
3 December 2020 Mario Cantone I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn’t wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
3 December 2020 Kid Rock I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let’s face it, at the end of the day, I’m not that smart of a guy.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
3 December 2020 Queen Latifah I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
3 December 2020 Miranda Lambert I’ve dated all kinds of guys and didn’t know who I’d end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.
3 December 2020 Carol Burnett My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
3 December 2020 Andre Norton As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one’s face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
3 December 2020 Epictetus We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
3 December 2020 John Drinkwater Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
3 December 2020 Mo Rocca A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something.
3 December 2020 Steve Albini We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
