#who

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#corset #i #likes #really #strange

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#bush #details #going #gone #howard

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#brother #children #enormous #generations #grandmother

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#become #ever #happy #hard #i

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune. ↗

— Roma Downey

#carry #hear #i #irish #never

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself. ↗

— Hugh Downs

#creation #dirty #field #himself #i

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#derived #frequently #important #keenest #least

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#because #country #hostile #made #old