I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Kin Hubbard

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Albert Camus

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

Donna Rice

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Karl Popper

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Rip Torn

This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.

Willa Cather

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Gary Barlow

If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.

Tom Murphy

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise.

Raheel Farooq

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

James Ellroy

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth.I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less deterministic.

Christopher Hitchens

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Aberjhani