I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

Phyllis George

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

Paul Reichmann

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adam Osborne

There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'

Edward Lear, Book of Nonsense

What you think of me is none of my business.

Terry ColeWhittaker

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Bill Frist

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Steve Martin

LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.

Oscar Wilde

I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

Nicholas Hoult