Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Magdalena Neuner

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Christopher Moore

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Hugh Leonard

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

Nelson Rockefeller

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

Andrea Mitchell

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Julie Andrews

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Robert A. Heinlein

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

Annie Elizabeth Delany, Having O

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Steve Martin

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Ricardo Montalban

My father was in the First World War.

Doris Lessing