Easter 1916 Important Quotes & Sayings

What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit. — Betty Ford

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it. — Rex Stout

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person. — Ralph Bunche

When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes as I start to write the middle. That way by the time the screenplay is finished I have taken myself and my audience from a familiar beginning point through the story to an unfamiliar ending point. — Christian Keiber

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference. — John Calvin

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead — David Bowie

Are you really listening ... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk? — Robert Montgomery

Whoever kills an innocent child;
this one is going to die painfully -
seven times. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The Parisians looked at each other constantly but were more curious about each other's shoes than their sexual availability. — Edmund White

The dead are silenced and the living are speechless.Who's going to tell their stories if I don't? — Gillian Rubinstein

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. — Quincy Jones

Every year hundreds of books, many of considerable merit, pass unnoticed. Each one has taken the author months to write, he may have had it in his mind for years; he has put into it something of himself which is lost forever, it is heart-rending to think how great are the chances that it will be disregarded. — W. Somerset Maugham