My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

George Eliot

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.

Nicki Minaj

I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?

Neil Gaiman

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

John le Carre

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

Juice Newton

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Denis Diderot

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

George Eliot

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Samuel Smiles

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

B. R. Ambedkar

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

Wm. Paul Young

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Benjamin Franklin