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I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#bright #business #enamored #everything #i

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#did #fun #i #life #my life

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#buck #everybody #kind #know #laid

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#army #basket #cat #dad #doubling

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#end #ghosts #having #i #in the end

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#honours #husband #i #i do #love

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#come #gandhi #gone #king #lot

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#call #features #human #human language #i

I write what I write. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#i write #write

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#calls #days #e-mail #gone #had