With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
John Banville
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think South Africa has shown it can host such a big event as the World Cup, so why not hold the Olympics at some point in Africa? Maybe not just in one country but in a host of countries.
Jochen Zeitz
WorldThinkCountryWhyAfricaBig
Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
Joel Edgerton
DeepThoughtNowNow And ThenEvery
Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?
John Paul Jones
SeaPowerGreatOceanWarMadness
In the country of pain we are each alone.
May Sarton
AlonePainCountryEach
My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.
Robert Pattinson
GlowLikesHeSaysDad
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.
Michael Dirda
TimeWalkPastPeopleLovedLook
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
John Podhoretz
PresentTaxWillClassMiddleClaim
I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
Tom Jenkinson
FindGroupUpWantedReally
If you are going to vote in this country, you should be a citizen. To be a citizen in this country, you should know English.
Tom Tancredo
YouCountryKnowCitizenVoteGoing
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
Robert Capa
TruthBestTruth IsPicture
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
Michael Ledeen
HateExperiencePopulationArabs
I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.
Chris March
FashionCareerCostumeField
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