It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.

Bashir F. Biodun

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Arthur Balfour

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Robert De Niro

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

Jessica Simpson

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the Bank and the City seem to think this is wrong, and that if people work harder they should be punished by having their mortgages increased.

Harry Enfield

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley