As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
I would ask you that if you were a man, no, you wouldn't.
When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?
I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.
Squirrels are born blind.
You power through it word by word, line by line.
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
When I received my first big cheque for my publishing deal, I ran to Marks & Spencers and blew #50 on lovely food.
I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
Whether I'm starting or coming off the bench, bigs have to protect the rim and can't give nothing easy to nobody.
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence was never written down.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
