This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession. – Ryszard Kapuscinski
There’s one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there’s a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic. – Paolo Sorrentino
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools. – Peter R. Grant
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. – Polly Toynbee
Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they’ve generally achieved what they wanted, and they’re more settled. – Rod Stewart
There’s a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy’s brains out. I’m a crook. – Ronald Biggs
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. – Paul Johnson
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. – Roy Harper
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. – Richard Dawkins
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders. – Pat Brown
All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. – Peter Schuyler
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. – Saul Bellow
The relationship between France and its ‘foreign’ players – blacks and North African Arabs – has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians. – Rabih Alameddine
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. – Omar Bongo
There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. – Orlando Bloom
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. – Peter L. Berger
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference. – Ralph Nader
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. – Pierre Bourdieu