I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Isak Dinesen

Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.

Albert Camus

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Rebecca West

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

Jimmy Carr

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

Patrick Stewart

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Gail Simmons

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

David Bailey

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

Michael Reagan

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

Oscar Wilde