Duke of Wellington Quotes
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Quotes to Explore
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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All records are not made to be broken.
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I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
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Mister Speaker, I am not able to understand the mental organization of the man who can consider this bill, and the subject of which it treats, as free from very great difficulties. He must be a man of very moderate abilities, whose ignorance is bliss, or a man of transcendent genius, whom no difficulties can daunt and whose clear vision no cloud can obscure.
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The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
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There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
