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“Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.”
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“The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery”
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“We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?”
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“If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.”
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“If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.”
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“My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself.”
Source : "'To be God with God': The Autotheistic Sayings of the Mystics". Book by James A. Wiseman, 1990.
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“At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.”
Source : "Comic Ruby Wax runs workshops for Home Office staff". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.
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“I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”
Source : Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.370, Simon and Schuster