"Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back."

“At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled”

Source : "Q&A Brenda Blethyn". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

“I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.”

“The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day,”

“They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.”

“A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.”

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.”

Source : "The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories". Book by John V. Denson, p. 488, 1999.

“... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”

Source : "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

“I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.”