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I am grateful...

I am grateful...

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Source: c. 1981; in...

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I think I've...

I think I've...

I think I've always had these songs that I've been writing in my head. Now I feel ready to let people start to hear...

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I must tell...

I must tell...

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. Never be...

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The first movement...

The first movement...

The first movement represented the struggles of my youth, the following andante the beginning of a more serious aspect...

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Thomas Shadwell: Words may be...

Thomas Shadwell: Words may be...

Words may be false and full of art;
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.


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William Wycherley: Mistresses are like...

William Wycherley: Mistresses are like...

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used...

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Walter Bagehot: A slight daily...

Walter Bagehot: A slight daily...

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilisation; like the gentle air of a...

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Walter Bagehot: An ambassador is...

Walter Bagehot: An ambassador is...

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Source: The English...

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Joseph A Schumpeter: Capitalism inevitably and...

Joseph A Schumpeter: Capitalism inevitably and...

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested...

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Andrew Carnegie: Here is the...

Andrew Carnegie: Here is the...

Here is the prime condition of success: Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it,...

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W Edwards Deming: The average American...

W Edwards Deming: The average American...

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with...

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Edward Albee: I have a...

Edward Albee: I have a...

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Source: Who's Afraid...

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William Congreve: Uncertainty and expectation...

William Congreve: Uncertainty and expectation...

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing...

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Menander: We live, not...

Menander: We live, not...

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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David Garrick: All is not...

David Garrick: All is not...

All is not gold that glitters.

Source: In Draper's Book of Quotations for the...

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Ruth Draper: Number seven ....

Ruth Draper: Number seven ....

Number seven . . . What's it meant to be, dear? . . . A Study? . . . It doesn't say what of? . . . Well, that's an...

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Debra Winger: I don't believe...

Debra Winger: I don't believe...

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for...

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Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

Source: In An Affair to...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

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Dorothy Gish: I'd like to...

Dorothy Gish: I'd like to...

I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers...

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