“If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.” Quote by Isidor Isaac Rabi
“People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.” PeopleWellsEyeSufferingCommonKnownConditionsExtremesDelusionWell KnownThrilling Author:Julian Barnes
“The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.” Life IsHalfDefeatBuriedFrailty Author:Julian Barnes
“When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.” WhiteVoteConstitutionMalesRight To Vote Author:Jesse Jackson
“When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.” WellsRoomsBedroomLiving Room Author:William H. Masters
“The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.” SocialCitiesResponsibilityDependsPoliceAidsIntenseSpiteMutualBehaviourSophisticatedPolicemenSurveillanceBreakdownCohesionAmerican Cities Author:Colin Ward
“One man's priority is another man's extravagence.” MenCharacterPrioritiesOne ManAnother Man Author:Edwina Currie
“The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.” PartyLabourBreakfastHouseholdLabour Party Author:Edwina Currie
“I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.” PeopleProblemPovertyClaimsWorkhouses Author:Edwina Currie
“Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensFeelingsRunningCoursesAttitudeTomorrowApproachGenuineBalancedLots Of MoneyMachoWorkaholic Author:Edwina Currie
“Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.” KnowsMenDoePlayAnswersLaughingKnow HowToo MuchPlayerSweetApproachMusicianSingersPlentySense Of HumorTrumpetsIncomparableImpeccable Author:Ella Fitzgerald