A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone's heart, unless you're Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two most attractive things in a man is a sense of danger and being able to make a girl feel really safe.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Cowboy boots you can't wear unless you actually are a cowboy or in a Status Quo tribute band, or over 60; there's something about a retiring gent in cowboy boots that looks sort of presidential.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more he's likely to get re-elected.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were moved from lateral to vertical.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.