No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Miuccia Prada

I always play women I would date.

Angelina Jolie

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Jodi Picoult

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

Edward Blishen

The Buck Stops Here

Harry S Truman

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Moraji R. Desai

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Paul Dickson

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Kevin Mitnick

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Albert Einstein

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Daniel J. Boorstin