The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

Liverpool will be without Kvarme tonight - he's illegible.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.