"About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only." Saint Teresa (de Cepeda) of Avila
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains." Maxim Gorky
"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains." Paul Whiteman
"I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday." Nelson Algren
"I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think." Jane Rule
"Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic." Michael "Parky" Parkinson
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know." Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
"You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits."
"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off." Reba McEntire