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“I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.”
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“Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.”
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“I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.”
Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.75, Canongate Books
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“Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.”
Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
Source : The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776
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“Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.”
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“Some makeup you put on and feel like youre getting pimples by the hour.”
Source : "Model Behavior / Vendela makes room in her life for charity, upcoming marriage and a 'Batman' movie" by Trish Donnally, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 1996. 
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“Great players make great plays.”
