Rachel Ashwell Quotes

#1. The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.

Whitey Herzog

#2. I was never interested in being an overly public person.

John Cusack

#3. I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Elie Wiesel

#4. It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

Jean De La Bruyere

#5. A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Aldous Huxley

#6. I had an infinite number of questions and would have been happy for her to recount her life in real time, would have been happy to walk on past Whitechapel and Limehouse into Essex and the estuary and on into the sea if she'd wanted to.

David Nicholls

#7. I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Michael Moore

#8. I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Claire Messud

#9. I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

David Bowie

#10. My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

Helene Hanff

#11. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#12. The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

Peter O'Toole