"In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess."

“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”

Source : Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

“Nothing could be more personal than a tape.”

“So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.”

“I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.”

“By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.”

“I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.14, Truman State University Press

“In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as ‘the best,’”

“I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.”