"The French complain of everything, and always." Napoleon Bonaparte
"The public is a bad guesser." Thomas de Quincey
"The air currents of the world never ventilated his mind."
"For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." Ethel Barrymore
"A woman can look both moral and exciting . . . if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle." Edna Ferber
"Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand." Thomas Edward Lawrence
"Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday." Lillian Carter
"Life itself is the proper binge." Julia Child
"I've been in show business my whole life. Why start something new now?" Rose Marie Mazetta
"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos." Oscar Peterson
"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" Linda Ellerbee