"What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?"

“The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.”

“Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you”

“Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.”

“Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”

“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.12, Spectra

“The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making, societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will of God.”

“I don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's one of the last, great geniuses in fashion.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.