3 December 2020 Demetri Martin The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
3 December 2020 Jean Giraudoux I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
3 December 2020 Ralph Thomas Walker May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
3 December 2020 Chrissie Hynde I’m not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
3 December 2020 Bill Condon Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
3 December 2020 Corey Feldman It’s funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
3 December 2020 Bill Condon Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series ‘Dark Shadows,’ which I followed avidly as a kid.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
3 December 2020 Michael K. Powell So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
3 December 2020 Mary McCarthy In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich Experimental science is fascinating, but I don’t want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I’ll read about it.
3 December 2020 Andre Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
3 December 2020 Rod Parsley It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
