More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943
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Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCThe only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789