"I remember all the entertainment shows showing pictures of Nicole Scherzinger annnnd that racing driver she was hanging around with."

“The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.”

“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”

“We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.”

Source : R. O. Blechman (2009). “Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”

“Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.”

“The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.”

“It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.”

“The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.”

Source : "In-laws and Outlaws". Book by C. Northcote Parkinson, 1962.