She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Hodor

Hodor

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Oscar Wilde

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

Peter Baynham

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

George Santayana

At last God caught his eye.

Harry Secombe

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

Julia Barr

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Richard Rodriguez

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Jose Marti

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Fred A. Allen

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

Keith Olbermann

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing

Madeline de Scudery