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“I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.”
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“It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.”
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“When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.”
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“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”
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“No one ever fell in love gracefully.”
Source : Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept
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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.242, University of Chicago Press
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“My life is really so much based in England.”
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“If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.”
