A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madame Walker selected Indianapolis as the headquarters for her growing business more than a century ago in 1910 because of its central location and thriving black business community.

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

A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

No British TV company could ever make a series like 'The West Wing' about British politics. It would beggar credibility. No one could write it with a straight face, or perform it without giggling.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.