"As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her."

“A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person”

“There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.”

Source : "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

“What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.”

“Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.”

Source : "How She Does It: Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm". Interview with Abigail L. Cuffey, www.womansday.com. August 25, 2009.

“We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.”

Source : R. O. Blechman (2009). “Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

“I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”

“It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.”

Source : Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

“Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.”