“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Noam Cohen (1999) American journalist
Interviewed as part of panel discussion — [Andrew, Lih, w:Andrew Lih, Wikimania 2009, Wikimedia Foundation, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:200908281410-Andrew Lih-Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community.ogv, October 30, 2014, Challenges of Covering the Wikimedia Community, August 28, 2009]
“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”
Colleen McCullough (1937–2015) Australian author
As quoted in Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers (1992) by Amber Coverdale Sumrall
“There is one thing about being President — nobody can tell you when to sit down.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
As quoted in"Sayings of the Week" in The Observer (9 August 1953), and The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 447
1950s
“[Nelson] "…One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled."”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)