3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.
3 December 2020 Lil' Kim It was a very emotional dinner… Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American’s rights into consideration.
3 December 2020 Mandy Patinkin I’m active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
3 December 2020 Lance Bass It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it’s no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I’d have the success they had.
3 December 2020 Althea Gibson In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
3 December 2020 Stephen Covey Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
3 December 2020 Vincent D'Onofrio It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.
3 December 2020 Neil Simon You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Olsen What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you’re going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
3 December 2020 Harlan Coben Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher.
3 December 2020 Chris Brown I’m 18 in this album. I’m not losing fans, and I’m not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
3 December 2020 Peter Nivio Zarlenga I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
3 December 2020 Margaret Sanger Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
3 December 2020 Mary Chapin Carpenter My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
3 December 2020 Joyce Brothers A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people – that comes in later.
