3 December 2020 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
3 December 2020 Daniel Keys Moran It’s obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
3 December 2020 Daniel Dae Kim There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
3 December 2020 Bob Seger My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it’s pretty cool because we all pull together, and it’s fun. It’s like being on a sports team or something.
3 December 2020 Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
3 December 2020 Evander Holyfield I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn’t have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn’t complain. They didn’t murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
3 December 2020 Tupac Shakur I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
3 December 2020 Shalom Harlow You don’t learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
3 December 2020 Skeet Ulrich I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
3 December 2020 Alex Winter I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
3 December 2020 John Clayton It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
3 December 2020 Helen Hunt The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
3 December 2020 Patti LaBelle When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white – it’s amazing that I’m able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
3 December 2020 Steven Hatfill I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
3 December 2020 Yo-Yo Ma The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it’s to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it’s well-received and lives in somebody else.
3 December 2020 Moliere Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
3 December 2020 Yousef Munayyer Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
3 December 2020 Sri Aurobindo India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
3 December 2020 Edward Dowden For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
3 December 2020 John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
3 December 2020 Dave Matthews I use God in my songs a lot but I don’t have a relationship. I don’t know what that means.
