3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).
3 December 2020 Tom Felton As soon as I get my car I think I’ll be going to the cinema more. Since I don’t go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.
3 December 2020 Bil Keane We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
3 December 2020 Frank Black They’re a different generation, those kids kids that are under the age of twelve. They’re not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They’re like, it’s cool and everything, but whatever. They’re just as impressed by YouTube.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder Do you force your kids to pay attention to what’s going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
3 December 2020 Maureen O'Hara The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
3 December 2020 Katherine Dunham We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
3 December 2020 James K. Polk Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
3 December 2020 Kelly Preston I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.
3 December 2020 Marcus Mumford I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.
3 December 2020 Douglas Feith They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.