The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“This is the Victorian era," she said. "Women didn't have to make sense.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on… — R.E. Vance Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really… — Randy Lerner Copy Share Image
“I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Purpose has always been part of Unilever's DNA. Our founder, William Lever, built a business around the sale of Lifebuoy soap that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the planet from… — Emmanuelle de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract… — Julia Stuart Copy Share Image
“---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and… — Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p184 Copy Share Image
“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all… — John Landis Copy Share Image
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I don't have a collection, but I have a thing with jackets. I really like jackets. Whether it's an '80s motorbike jacket,… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
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