As a player, you would sometimes want a bit more public backing.
The public has a taste for supping with the great.
Players don't trust most of the people around them.
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.
I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.
O lovely sisters! Is it true that they are all inspired by you, and write by inward magic charm'd, and high enthusiasm warm'd?
I feel bad that I never discussed my mother's life and times as a career woman with her.
Hunger and cold give a man up to his enemy.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
All these things are still several years away, especially from the u.s. Market.
I want to be a strong voice, period.
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.
Silence was never written down.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
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.
