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- There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 3
- Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Sept 30 1923
- If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry Vaughan, Time, Apr. 28, 1952
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
- It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
- People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
- Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
- No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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