Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. – Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. – Robert Dale Owen
Barack Obamas life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bushs tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. – John Sununu
People who think my books are autobiographical, which theyre not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. – Curtis Sittenfeld
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I dont want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him. – Hedy Lamarr