3 December 2020 Tim Duncan I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
3 December 2020 Lesley Gore I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn’t working.
3 December 2020 Anthony Edwards Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said ‘God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn’t the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
3 December 2020 Plato Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
3 December 2020 Famke Janssen I love scary movies. The Shining and Don’t Look Now are two of the best.
3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they’re not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It’s a product.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
3 December 2020 Joseph Barber Lightfoot We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
3 December 2020 August Strindberg Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
3 December 2020 David Duval We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can’t do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles Music’s been around a long time, and there’s going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it’s a big record, that’s the frosting on the cake, but music’s the main meal.
3 December 2020 William Tyndale I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
3 December 2020 Pat Metheny My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
3 December 2020 Calvin Harris I’m not angry, I’m not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I’m more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
3 December 2020 Karl Jaspers The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought.
3 December 2020 Graham Greene Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
3 December 2020 Adrian Lyne Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don’t know, I’ve always been intrigued by those emotions.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again.
3 December 2020 Alan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
3 December 2020 Billy Campbell If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I’m drawn to locations. What really drew me to ‘The 4400,’ aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
3 December 2020 Heidi Klum The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it’s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria’s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
3 December 2020 Marion Jones A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn’t such a big fan.
3 December 2020 Alex Campbell From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
3 December 2020 Eric Cantor And basically, the sense of the ‘Pledge to America’ is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in ’06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
