It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and its too bad that we dont have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning teams lawyers. – Carol Burnett
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. Thats an education in itself. – Carol Burnett
But I didnt ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didnt even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. – Carol Burnett
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. – Carol Burnett
…creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a forest floor newly swept by rain. – Luwuh, Chaking, regarding selection of the best quality tea leaves