"So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works."

-- Lincoln Steffens

#Russia Quotes #Said Quotes

“Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'”
“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.”
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”

Source : William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.211, Penguin
“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
“I came from a real working-class show business family.”

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