Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or... twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? What do you do after that? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage ..."There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of the physicality of the most famous blonde in the world is a wholesome eroticism blurred a little round the edges by... the fact she is not quite sure what eroticism is. This gives her her tentative luminosity and what makes her, somehow, always more like her own image in the mirror than she is like herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women: I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.... Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken, Look! It is there!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous anima...ls in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Lord killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.... The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. Heraiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he hath set the world upon them. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations tha...t we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have given the best of myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political freedom for women, knowing that upon this re...sts the hope not only of the freedom of men but of the onward civilization of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »