"There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so."

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”

“Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.”

“I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally. But to succeed at the highest level, you need some objectivity, which feminism hates. Feminists see objective reality as a conspiracy out to make them feel bad about themselves.”

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

“It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."”

Source : Athenaeus (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Athenaeus (Illustrated)”, p.471, Delphi Classics

“Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.”