"We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that."

“I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.”

“The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.16, Penguin

“I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.”

“You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

“Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.”

“I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?”

“Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -”

“I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.”

Source : "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.