"Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt."

-- Caitlin Moran

#Passion Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus ***** boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.”
“On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.”

Source : Red Barber (1968). “Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat”, p.304, U of Nebraska Press
“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”
“Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.”
“We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.”
“Hire people who intimidate you.”
“Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.”
“After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.”

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