Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.

Julia Gregson

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

James Russell Lowell

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Le Corbusier

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Kenneth L. Pike

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.

Helen P. Blavatsky, The Voice of

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.

Michael Phelps