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- How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
- This is quite a three-pipe problem.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Politics is largely a matter of heart.
- R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
- As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, Introduction
- It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
- In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
- Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)
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