3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.
3 December 2020 Andrew Motion Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – it’s just that I’m one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
3 December 2020 J. Paul Getty No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.
3 December 2020 Giordano Bruno It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
3 December 2020 Carnie Wilson I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don’t know how to relax, that’s my problem.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
3 December 2020 Nas I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can’t ask for more than that.
3 December 2020 William Cowper How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
3 December 2020 Jose Saramago I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
3 December 2020 Rodney King I’m a religious person. I remember my mom told me: ‘Vengeance belongs to God. It’s up to him to wreak vengeance.’ It’s hard for me to get to that point, but that’s the work of God.
3 December 2020 David Hockney I’m a very early riser, and I don’t like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
3 December 2020 Les Brown A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
3 December 2020 Guillermo Cabrera Infante The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
3 December 2020 David Hunt The Homeland Security department doesn’t have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can’t direct anything except inside their bureau.
3 December 2020 Ornette Coleman Most of my relationships have been like that – with record companies. I’ve never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I’ve always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.