There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Ang Lee

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Ryan Giggs

If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.

Florence Williams

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

John Corry

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Stephen King

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

Kat Dennings

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Jim Lehrer

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

George Orwell, "Horizon", April,

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

John Boyne

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton