"Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had."

-- Gail Collins

#Husband Quotes #Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have always been honest about my recollection of events.”

Source : Blunkett's resignation statement, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.
“All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.”
“I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.”
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

Source : Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco
“People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.”
“The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.”
“The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

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