You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

Time is like a handful of sand, the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

Glittering tinsel lights glass balls and candy canes dangle from pine trees.

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there's no president of England, and I'm not British.

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. –John A. Shedd

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

A person's sexuality is so much more than one word gay. No one refers to anyone as just hetero because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.