3 December 2020 John Warnock Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn’t exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
3 December 2020 Alexis Carrel Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
3 December 2020 Saint Patrick No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God’s good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that – as is the perfect truth – it was the gift of God.
3 December 2020 William Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
3 December 2020 Josh Duhamel ‘Vegas’ was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I’m still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I’ll always be sad about that.
3 December 2020 Justin Townes Earle I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn’t have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
3 December 2020 Edvard Munch I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
3 December 2020 Jeff Koons I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.
3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
3 December 2020 Spike Lee Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven’t done and something I hope I’ll never have to do.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
3 December 2020 Ralph W. Sockman Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
3 December 2020 Goldwin Smith The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
3 December 2020 Aristotle The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
3 December 2020 John Shimkus States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.
3 December 2020 Marie Stopes You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
3 December 2020 Paul Graham Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
3 December 2020 Hayden Fry I’ll be here in my home with three big screens. I’ll be watching three games at a time, and when they’re over, I’ll look at three more.
3 December 2020 Shakti Gawain Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
