3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there’s something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
3 December 2020 Stephen Covey A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
3 December 2020 Pythagoras There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
3 December 2020 David Knopfler I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
3 December 2020 Xun Zi In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
3 December 2020 Joseph Ratzinger A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
3 December 2020 Mark Rydell There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
3 December 2020 Shayne Ward If somebody tells me I’m famous I say, ‘I’m not.’ I can’t see myself as famous and I don’t think I’ll ever call myself famous. I definitely don’t feel famous.
3 December 2020 Mario Batali As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food’s going to taste good. And that – that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee In the past I’ve made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can’t really hate them. You can discard them, but you can’t really hate them.
3 December 2020 Judd Gregg I’ve always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I’m willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we’ll have to-in order to increase another place, I’m willing to do that.
3 December 2020 Chris Lowe You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it’s primarily about the songs, it’s about song writing.
3 December 2020 Jose Marti But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
3 December 2020 Paul Feig As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don’t do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you’re 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don’t portray anything that says ‘I’m too cool and I don’t care.’
3 December 2020 Mac Davis Don’t Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I’m gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
3 December 2020 Vincent Kartheiser And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I’m thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn’t a cool thing to be.
