3 December 2020 Lucille Clifton People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
3 December 2020 William Dunbar Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
3 December 2020 Douglas Wood Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He’s an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova I love where I’m from. I don’t live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It’s what’s inside, it’s not what’s outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
3 December 2020 Doug Davidson If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.
3 December 2020 Maurice Chevalier If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
3 December 2020 Andy Partridge It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn’t remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
3 December 2020 Christina Ricci I’ve been looking to do TV for a while. I’ve always done guest starring stuff. I’ve done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I’ve always loved the experience.
3 December 2020 Ellen G. White The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
3 December 2020 Liu Wen Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
3 December 2020 David Hockney To me, the world’s rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
3 December 2020 Herb Caen A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
3 December 2020 Angie Stone I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
3 December 2020 Studs Terkel We use the word ‘hope’ perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: ‘I hope it’s a nice day.’ ‘Hopefully, you’re doing well.’ ‘So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.’
3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.
3 December 2020 Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
