The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

Joe Wilson

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Fay Wray

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Evelyn Waugh

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

Sachin Tendulkar

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Jean de la Bruyere

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Harvey S. Firestone

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Donnie Wahlberg

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)