“After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered."”

“I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”

“The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.”

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the misquote better)”

“For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; the cold style took fire, and beneath the clumsy periods welled tears.”

“He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.”

“He was my mentor in a way -- as a musician and as a businessman. He came to Turkey once and saw me on stage performing, and then he came up to me and said, "You've got to call me." I said, I would love to. And that was the first thing I did when I came to New York. Then we did an agreement, a deal, with him for the English albums.”

“After this I saw God in a Point, that is to say, in mine understanding, — by which sight I saw that He is in all things.”

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

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“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”