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“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.”
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“The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.”
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“I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.”
Source : "Q&A – Emily Rios (Andrea)". AMC Network Interview, www.amc.com. 2010. 
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“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
Source : Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers
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“But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.”
Source : "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.
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“I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
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“I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.”
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“I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.”
Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1998). “Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero”, p.37, Regnery Publishing
