I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.
David BowieI would always want printed books.
J. K. RowlingWhen it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
Marilyn MonroeI would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.
Jim MattisNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.
Gordon RamsayThe French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BonoNo one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.
Dolly PartonAs far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.
Abby Lee MillerI like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.
Angelina JolieAnkles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
Dwight D. EisenhowerNo one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry KissingerI don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingThere’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘
Jerry SeinfeldI’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.
Angelina JolieShe is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Oscar WildeThe fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
Marilyn MonroeIn October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J. R. R. TolkienI’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
Vivienne WestwoodDignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles DickensShe got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho MarxIn Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Marilyn MonroeNo one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles SpurgeonI try not to go around looking like a hag.
Dolly PartonMost of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee WilliamsIt was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.
Dolores HuertaO, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William ShakespeareAll fat women look the same; they all look 42.
Margaret AtwoodAppearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai LamaWhen you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.
Margaret AtwoodI don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Coco ChanelThe multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VoltaireI spend a lot of time reading.
Bill GatesI don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
Vivienne WestwoodBachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H. L. MenckenI read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.
Kevin HartHere’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
Kevin HartHow well he’s read, to reason against reading!
William ShakespeareI think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Madeleine AlbrightI do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey NewtonBlack people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
Kanye WestChefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Gordon RamsayI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoWell, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
Christopher HitchensPeople take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.
RihannaI have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.
Jerry SeinfeldBeauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve just always been a reader.
Kevin GatesPlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine HepburnPeople have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Vivienne WestwoodWhy is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
EminemI’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.
Ronald ReaganWhy do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny YoungmanPeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleI grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce KnowlesI do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas JeffersonA man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn MonroeFunny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
Dolly PartonStop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
Dolly PartonWe do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
J. K. Rowling