My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. – V. S. Naipaul
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man’s hut, as well as the palace of his superior. – William Shenstone
I replaced someone on ‘Days of our Lives’ once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I was a brunette: they went nuts. Even at fan events, they were rude to me. – Shelley Hennig
I met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. – Steven Wright
I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn’t like herself. – Shannyn Sossamon
I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn’t have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day. – Wong Kar-wai
The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frosted Flakes because she wanted us to behave. Otherwise, we were eating shredded wheat, granola, or Grape Nuts. – Timothy Olyphant
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. – Timothy Radcliffe
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. – Stephen Breyer
I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she’s sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days. – Whit Stillman
I’ve always been the girl the kids in school would be like, ‘What is she wearing?’ Then eventually some trends would stick. – Shenae Grimes
I see something different in Hillary Clinton. She wants a trade prosecutor. She’s going after currency. She’s going stand up strong on keeping China designated as a non-market economy. – Sherrod Brown
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It’s all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn’t want to be deep or highbrow. – Sophie Hannah
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write. – Wendi Deng Murdoch
Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice. – Sarah Hughes
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition. – Sarah Sutton
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out. – Taryn Manning
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is ‘hard’ is wrong, so she handed me ‘Hamlet’ when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on ‘Hamlet’ and caused quite a lot of trouble! – Seanan McGuire
My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year. – Tracy Austin
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. – Virginia Woolf
My philosophy is that one must always give a lady what she wants. That never goes out of style. – Sirio Maccioni
My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. – Teri Garr
Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother’s sense to her. – Sammi Hanratty
It’s often said that you’re the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you’ll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back. – Travis Bradberry