"Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life."

“The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.”

“I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.”

Source : "The Enthusiasms of Alison Brie". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2013.

“Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.”

“Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.”

“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”

“And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.”

“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”

“... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.146