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“God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.”
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“I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.”
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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”
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“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”
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“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”
Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”
Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”
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“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”
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“No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.”
Source : "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011. 
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“You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.”
Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media
