I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

As I grow older and olderAnd totter towards the tomb,I find I care less and lessWho goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers, That's Why I

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

W. H. Auden

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

Esther Williams

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

Thomas Jefferson

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Wilfrid Laurier

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective it reminds you to feel.

Mick Fleetwood

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

Mike Johanns

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Abdul Kalam

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift