Pepys Diary Quotes & Sayings

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.' — Maeve Binchy

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley. — Little Richard

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling. — Benjamin Graham

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. — Paul R. Ehrlich

What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks. — Charles B. Rangel

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion. — Rafael Sabatini

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, the king yawns much in council, it is thought he spends himself overmuch in the arms of Madame Louise, who far from being wearied, seems fresher than ever after sporting with the king. — Antonia Fraser

Gilly Gilleshpee — Victoria Laurie

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth. — Bob Frank

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns ... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans ... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice. — Johnny Depp

So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear - I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending. — Hunter S. Thompson

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid. — Denis Villeneuve