"Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class"

“Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.”

Source : 1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.

“Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.”

“Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.”

“I'm a tough critic on myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.”

“...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.”

“They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.”

“I can feel you, even though I can't see you.”

Source : Nancy Holder, DEBBIE VIGUIÉ (2010). “Wicked: Witch & Curse”, p.272, Simon and Schuster