3 December 2020 Edwidge Danticat I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
3 December 2020 Genevieve Gorder That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush… it’s a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
3 December 2020 Nadia Comaneci I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
3 December 2020 Gary L. Francione There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
3 December 2020 Fareed Zakaria Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
3 December 2020 Louise Brown I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
3 December 2020 Frederick Reines However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
3 December 2020 B. C. Forbes The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
3 December 2020 Clare Short And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Smith My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
3 December 2020 James Stewart I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.
3 December 2020 Dr. Seuss I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
3 December 2020 Lord Byron Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
3 December 2020 Kurt Busch This is like my dad’s race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn’t race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn’t vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
3 December 2020 Peter Davison I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
3 December 2020 Isabel Allende The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn’t find a place for myself, for years and years.
3 December 2020 Alan Thicke There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there’s even a place for humor in that.
3 December 2020 S. J. Perelman He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
3 December 2020 Earl Nightingale Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling I don’t read ‘chick lit,’ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.
