"Assassins!" Arturo Toscanini
"History gets thicker as it approaches recent times." Alan John Percivale Taylor
"He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged." Simone Signoret
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor
"It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong tree." Penelope Ann Douglass Conner
"Perhaps men should think twice before making widowhood our only path to power." Gloria Steinem
"We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid."
"If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters." Anita Bryant
"I'm a big woman. I need big hair." Aretha Franklin
"Sure, the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count – it's a fun body count." Bonnie Bedelia
"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex... People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats." Reginald Dwight
"If someone told me they were a 'lesbian sex guru,' I would tell them to get a life." Susie Bright
"When my boyfriend and I are going out, he'll sometimes look at me and say, 'Where's your dress?'" Sarah Jessica Parker
"I loved making 'Rising Sun.' I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth." Tatjana Patitz