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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison American Writer

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

R. L. Stine American Writer

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

Howard Dean American Politician

If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.

Grace Slick American Musician

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Bobby Darin American Musician

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Mercedes McCambridge American Actress

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Cyril Connolly English Journalist

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft American Novelist

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Jacques Delors French Economist

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke Irish Statesman

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Val Guest British Director

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley English Novelist

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Mao Tse-Tung Chinese Leader

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Camille Claudel French Sculptor

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

Kendrick Meek American Politician

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan Canadian Sociologist

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Woodrow Wilson American President

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

Robin Day British Journalist

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

David Strathairn American Actor

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes American Writer