3 December 2020 John Deacon Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
3 December 2020 Flannery O'Connor There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow I wouldn’t say I’m a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I’ll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
3 December 2020 Tracey Gold I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn’t control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.
3 December 2020 Charlie Sheen I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn’t earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
3 December 2020 Anthony Horowitz Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Olsen I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
3 December 2020 Joyce Brothers Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
3 December 2020 Ernest Istook We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
3 December 2020 Petra Nemcova I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech – and the freedom of dreaming, really.
3 December 2020 Julien Benda And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
3 December 2020 Daniel Craig You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and ‘behind the scenes,’ and now it’s a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
3 December 2020 Paul Theroux Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
3 December 2020 Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
3 December 2020 Bob Seger I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.
3 December 2020 David Hume A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
