Willbrandt Expansion Quotes

#1. Why don't people do what they really want to do, Reuben?" he asked. "Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn't possible?

Anne Rice

#2. Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

John Grisham

#3. As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Matt Bomer

#4. Here it seemed some of them slept for there were divan beds covered with blankets only and a large, much undenticulated, comb.

Evelyn Waugh

#5. Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

#6. The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.

Jane Hamilton

#7. If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

Mercedes McCambridge

#8. My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Hilary Mantel