"There is no sinner like a young saint."
Aphra Behn(07/10/1640 – 04/16/1689)
English writer
"Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together."
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Anatole France
"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."
Wilbur Wright
"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
Edward F. Halifax
"In the end, everything is a gag."
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
"I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life—even when it's a kick in the teeth."
Polly Adler
"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. "
Spike Milligan
"Two members of the acting profession who are not needed by that profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that an actor's job is still more difficult than their new ones."
Sir Peter Ustinov
"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate."
Dusty Springfield
"With a biography there is no straight line; all is muddled. You don't know what you know, you don't know what you don't know; if you find anything you make a note about it because some day it may find its partner. You have to have very good ways of keeping track of what you have found and where you have put it."
Diane Middlebrook
"It was nice to go through that and survive it. I think we were pretty levelheaded compared to some people."
"Lonesome" Dave Peverett
"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents [the adults had to pay]."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"He was like a dry cracker. Brittle."
Edna Ferber
