3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
3 December 2020 Curtis LeMay Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
3 December 2020 David Cronenberg I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be – although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.
3 December 2020 James E. Casey One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
3 December 2020 Henry Cabot Lodge Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world’s peace and to the welfare of mankind.
3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
3 December 2020 John Mellencamp I want to sell to people my own age, because that’s the way I write songs.
3 December 2020 Daryl Hall I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
3 December 2020 Kevin Costner We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It’s a delusion to think it’s gone away.
3 December 2020 Vin Diesel My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
3 December 2020 Clay Aiken If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
3 December 2020 Alfred Hitchcock Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
3 December 2020 Christopher Morley Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
3 December 2020 Kevin Costner When I make a film I’m away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
3 December 2020 William Scranton The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
3 December 2020 Truman Capote To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
