Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad. Donald Hall Read Quote
My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, ‘I ain’t your… damn daddy.’ That was something that was painful, to put it mildly. Chris Gardner Read Quote
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. Muriel Spark Read Quote
If we are gong to be an outstanding team, we need players who are going to step up in the big moments and realise, every time they play for England, they have the chance to be involved in an iconic moment, a historic performance, and that they have that choice every time they go on the field. Gareth Southgate Read Quote
For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they’re really focusing on these huge blockbusters, spending a fortune on cartoon pictures and comic-strip movies and superhero movies, and they aren’t making pictures like ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ which was an Oscar winner in its day. Peter Bogdanovich Read Quote
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. David Hilbert Read Quote
I can’t pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married. George Lopez Read Quote
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. Charles de Gaulle Read Quote
I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me ‘honey.’ Daniel Woodrell Read Quote
