Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Sanderson

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare

peace is not about the absence of conflict but it is about the presence of sincerity.

Toge Aprilianto

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James Gunn

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Henry Ford

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Michael Pollan

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Jenny Slate

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

Phillip Lim

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden