"In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it."

-- James Russell Lowell

“What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?”
“June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?”

Source : Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.”
“I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.”
“My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.”
“You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.”
“If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough”

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