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“I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'”
Source : "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.
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“One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.”
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“When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.”
Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage
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“[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.”
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“I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.”
Source : "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
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“Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....”
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“I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.”
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“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”
Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin