War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. – Rebecca Harding Davis
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. – Rex Stout
For ‘Iron Man’ I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, ‘Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she’s rocking it right now.’ – Olivia Munn
The digital native doesn’t send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. – Rupert Murdoch
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. – Rudolph A. Marcus
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she’s created, but I’m not an addict of Harry Potter. I don’t feel possessive about it. – Ralph Fiennes
My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called ‘Everything Stew,’ where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together. – Ruth Reichl
I’m introverted, and I pay attention to my muse… Record companies used to go mad and say ‘We don’t know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us ‘Addicted to Love,’ and you’re a rock n’ roll star, then you give us ‘She Makes My Day,’ and what’s that?’ But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn’t. – Robert Palmer
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. – Queen Victoria
Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She’s phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her – that’s how much I love her. – Rutina Wesley
I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. – Sharon Stone
Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it’s huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, ‘Ah.’ – Princess Eugenie of York
Right now I’m trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She’s very, very much alive for us. – Robert Wagner
My sister, Dottie, suffered from COPD for quite a few years before we knew what it was. Hers was a form of emphysema, and she was 48 when she passed away. – Patty Loveless
In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer – the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was. – Raf Simons
I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married. – Robert Blake
I would definitely trade clothes with Lucy Hale. Her fashion sense is right on point, and I feel like she’s never afraid to take risks with her clothes. – Olivia Holt
It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn’t speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural. – Roz Chast
Beatrice loves her glamorous dresses and her hair being curly or big – like Mummy’s – and I hate volume. I like my hair to be sort of flat. I like just throwing on a pair of jeans and generally being more understated. She is more ‘Let’s do the glamour.’ We’re chalk and cheese. – Princess Eugenie of York
You don’t like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature. – Peter Mayle
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created. – Robert Jay Lifton
John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I’m sorry, it’s got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts – she’s grossly unqualified. – Ron Reagan
I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn’t even have to mention them out loud to each other. – Rachel Kushner
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. – Pam Brown
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. – Rita Rudner
What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist. – Rebecca Ferguson
