Faruma Boduberu Quotes & Sayings

Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it was a chaps thing. Seasoned observers all, we set the world, such as it was, to rights, offsetting our intellectual know-how with truly wondrous flights of fancy. It was at the time of the ruinous yet avoidable civil war in Angola, in which far too many people died, or, in our immortal parlance, became 'deadified.' It might have been anyone - actually, I [Christopher Hitchens] am sure it was our poet friend Craig Raine - who came up with the appalling yet unforgettable idea that there is a design flaw in the female form, and that the breasts and the buttocks really ought to be on the same side. For myself, I have oft been perplexed as to why our heads are where, in a truly just world, our penises really ought to be, and my arse is not located between my chin and my nose, allowing me mellifluously to talk out of it. — Craig Brown

Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact. — Mariella Frostrup

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend. — Daniel Petrie

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. — Zig Ziglar

No persons or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far too strange for that. — Jo Nesbo

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress. — Ellen Muth

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. — Billy Cannon

You can't make an egg without frying an egg — Thom Yorke