The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Charles Kennedy

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Ernest Hemingway

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Gina Carano

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Nancy Astor

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Billy Connolly

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Dean Norris

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

Ma Jian

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Frederik Pohl

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Orison Swett Marden

One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!

Rodney Dangerfield