"Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career."

“I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.”

“Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.”

“If...[Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.”

“Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.”

Source : Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.347, A&C Black

“Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.”

“I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.”

“It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.”

“For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.”

Source : "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.