3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
3 December 2020 Mike Rogers Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I’ve ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
3 December 2020 William Glasser We don’t focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
3 December 2020 John Thorn I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi I don’t think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
3 December 2020 Konrad Adenauer In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
3 December 2020 Chris LeDoux They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It’s amazing. Sometimes it didn’t come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
3 December 2020 Amy Poehler When you’re a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it’s really boring, but it’s not. It’s enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you’re a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
3 December 2020 Christina Ricci I’m always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time – they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.
3 December 2020 Paul Sweeney How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can’t, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’
3 December 2020 Gloria Swanson The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
3 December 2020 Michael Clarke Duncan Whenever I’m having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.
3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
3 December 2020 Shirley Knight The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
3 December 2020 John L. Lewis The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
3 December 2020 George Burns Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
3 December 2020 Jayma Mays This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn’t happen.
3 December 2020 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
3 December 2020 Ken Jennings The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can’t know. And so it’s not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn’t work for many people.
3 December 2020 Margaret Cho I’m taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It’s very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.
