3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
3 December 2020 Black Kettle We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix You don’t have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don’t have to keep flashing those words all the time.
3 December 2020 Robert Cormier Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.
3 December 2020 Lindsay Lohan On a day when you’re tired, it’s important to just say good morning to everyone so they’re kind of aware that it’s gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.
3 December 2020 John Wooden We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
3 December 2020 Richard Bach There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
3 December 2020 Linford Christie Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
3 December 2020 Danica McKellar It’s such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
3 December 2020 David Smith The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
3 December 2020 Pedro Calderon de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
3 December 2020 Fidel Castro The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
3 December 2020 Steven Chu By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.
3 December 2020 Satish Kumar If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
3 December 2020 Sai Baba The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
3 December 2020 Lisa Snowdon On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
3 December 2020 Jackie Chan I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.