3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
3 December 2020 John Steinbeck Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
3 December 2020 Harry Seidler The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
3 December 2020 James Broughton In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
3 December 2020 Abu Bakar Bashir Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
3 December 2020 Helen Thomas There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
3 December 2020 Theodore C. Sorensen We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
3 December 2020 Joyce Maynard Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
3 December 2020 Jodie Foster I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn’t allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you’re done with work.
3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
3 December 2020 Woody Allen If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
3 December 2020 Jason Gann My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
3 December 2020 Jay Roach I do love DVD and I’ve always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there’s so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.
3 December 2020 Lennart Nilsson And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it’s the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
3 December 2020 Stephen Fry I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
3 December 2020 Robin Gibb You know, we’d just had a birthday, he was… you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world… a very gifted man, and it’s a loss to the world, not just for us.
3 December 2020 Maurice Chevalier A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
