3 December 2020 Josh Billings Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. I don’t like comedy. I like funny things. I don’t like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, ‘Oh Jesus.’
3 December 2020 Lord Byron I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
3 December 2020 Tom Welling Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn’t see the point – although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn’t devoted to it.
3 December 2020 Bill Lee When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It’s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
3 December 2020 Paul Robeson I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
3 December 2020 Michael Reagan You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan’s son.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone’s commitment and intelligence.
3 December 2020 Nicholas D. Kristof Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
3 December 2020 Dennis Miller There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so – like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don’t want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe I’ve always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don’t see me as just Harry Potter, I’ll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They’re letting me prove that I’m serious about this.
3 December 2020 Herbert Simon Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
3 December 2020 Sid Caesar Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
3 December 2020 Jackson Pollock I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
3 December 2020 Victoria Woodhull Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
3 December 2020 Syd Barrett I’d like to be rich. I’d like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
3 December 2020 William H. Macy When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That’s something for a stage actor.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
3 December 2020 Hope Solo I hate the cliche of ‘just have fun,’ but what I’ve seen in today’s sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.
