Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Max Cannon

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

Joan Rivers

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

B. C. Forbes

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Erma Bombeck

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Van Morrison

The general thrust these days is: Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, it didn't work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there's nothing to be done about it and anyway fuck it, who cares? But let me put it this way-the dead are still looking at us, waiting for us to acknowledge our part in their murder.

Harold Pinter, It Never Happened