3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn’t understand, and in a way still don’t, because when I look in a mirror it doesn’t seem funny to me.
3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
3 December 2020 Curt Weldon Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.
3 December 2020 Gunter Grass As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
3 December 2020 Basil Hume The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
3 December 2020 Wynton Marsalis People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it’s jazz music-it’s not easy for them to get to it. I don’t want them ever to feel that I’m taking their presence lightly.
3 December 2020 Shannyn Sossamon But I’m trying not to be cynical – I don’t want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It’s really amazing what’s happening to me.
3 December 2020 James McAvoy I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn’t think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right – I did always want to be good.
3 December 2020 Princess Diana Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
3 December 2020 Jacob Lusk I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there’s nothing separating you. It’s just you, and the voice – you, and the water.
3 December 2020 Charlie Hunnam If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can’t tolerate it.
3 December 2020 Stephen Spender Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
3 December 2020 Michael Phelps This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
