3 December 2020 Tom T. Hall My theory is if you have a religion, it’s a good one. Because some people don’t have any at all.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles I did it to myself. It wasn’t society… it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
3 December 2020 Herbie Mann I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it’s very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.
3 December 2020 Penelope Leach For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
3 December 2020 William Henry Ashley We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
3 December 2020 Tom Daschle We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
3 December 2020 Neville Chamberlain We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf They’re very, uh, you know, I don’t come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they’re cool and bare minimum so it’s not always a money issue for me.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters – some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home – seem more determined to prevent that happening.
3 December 2020 Anita Brookner Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.
3 December 2020 Timothy White I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
3 December 2020 E. Stanley Jones Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I’ve never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn’t take advantage of a rehearsal process.
3 December 2020 William Eardley IV Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn’t all have to be by tomorrow!
3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
3 December 2020 Julia Sweeney Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that’s where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
3 December 2020 Jack Benny Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
3 December 2020 Rumi It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
3 December 2020 John Cameron I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
3 December 2020 Ken Jennings If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I’m sort of screwed. I’m going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.
3 December 2020 Ludwig van Beethoven Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.