Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.Barack Obama
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.George Orwell
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.George Orwell
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.George Orwell
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.Marilyn Monroe
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.Marilyn Monroe