"There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives."

“Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.”

“Raids are slightly constipating.”

“The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community”

“I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.”

“I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

“If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.”

Source : In 'Observer' 9 November 1969