3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you’re related to them. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it’s fascinating.
3 December 2020 Tracey Ullman I’ve always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
3 December 2020 Brett Favre I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek I have one friend that I’ve had since I was born, and she’s from Coatzacoalcos. She’s not really impressed or interested in the actor’s life. My family isn’t really either.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
3 December 2020 Johnny Ball Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
3 December 2020 Davey Havok I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
3 December 2020 Konrad Adenauer The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
3 December 2020 Kathleen Sebelius I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
3 December 2020 Jim Lehrer My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
3 December 2020 Yuan T. Lee We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
3 December 2020 Peter Hammill Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
3 December 2020 Adrian Mitchell Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
3 December 2020 Misty May-Treanor She had a hit for every syllable: ‘Don’t. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.’ That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
3 December 2020 Gilbert Murray The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
3 December 2020 Frank Murphy Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
