3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
3 December 2020 Adrian Mitchell I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
3 December 2020 Denis Leary You can’t teach somebody how to be funny. You’re either funny, or you ain’t.
3 December 2020 Roma Downey I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
3 December 2020 Michael Kors My legacy would be that you don’t have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.
3 December 2020 Charles Olson You don’t help people in your poems. I’ve been trying to help people all my life – that’s my trouble.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
3 December 2020 Shay Mitchell I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
3 December 2020 Mike Tyson God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
3 December 2020 Janos Kadar It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people’s democratic order and the power of the working class.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Gotlieb You don’t go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
3 December 2020 Chris Chocola Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation’s immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
3 December 2020 Joyce Brothers Virginity is such a personal thing. You can’t judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they’ll love forever.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.
3 December 2020 Vicente Fox You may count on Mexico’s support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
3 December 2020 Andrew Shue There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
