"I've never had a very great public life."

-- Cameron Mackintosh

“Sire," Oliver said as he helped Petunia to her feet, "I'd like to marry Petunia. "Of course you would," retorted the King Gregor. "But not right now! we just got those two taken care of." He pointed to the twins who were still trying to play Christian's odd game. "And weddings are expensive!”

Source : Jessica Day George (2012). “Princess of the Silver Woods”, p.322, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.”
“I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.”
“Iâ€™m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. Iâ€™m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just rememberâ€”itâ€™s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, youâ€™re on your own.”
“Error often is to be preferred to indecision.”

Source : Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837). “Memoirs of Aaron Burr”, p.337
“I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
“There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress.”

Source : "House managers make case against the president". www.cnn.com. January 14, 1999.
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

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