Grandes Quotes & Sayings

Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands. — Pleasefindthis

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. — Herbert Hoover

All of these jobs required an education and therefore excluded women, who were not allowed into many universities. Although the University of London admitted women from 1877, it was nearly 70 years later in 1946 that the University of Cambridge did the same. In France, the Sorbonne admitted women in 1880 but two other Grandes Ecoles only started to accept women in the 1960s? It was only in the 1960s that Harvard University, Princeton University and New York University allowed women to be granted PhDs. Opportunities for women in the professions were therefore limited or non-existent. But there were jobs to be had in the unskilled work produced by Taylorism, with women replacing men in many countries in Europe and North America because they were cheaper to employ. — Binna Kandola

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. — O. Henry

Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? - do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything? — Alexandre Dumas

It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag. — Pete Wentz

When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer. — Barry White

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know. — Nora Roberts

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing. — Tim Crouch