“Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.”

“People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard. They say things that just don't gel, you know. Well, you've heard this a lot: "Pick up a shell - oh, you can hear the ocean!" You could pick up a bicycle and hear the ocean - you're at the beach. Put the shell down, you'll hear the ocean twice as loud.”

“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down. ”

“Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.”

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”

“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick up can do whatever he wants.”

“Donald Trump and producer Mark Burnett are reportedly considering creating a Broadway musical based on The Apprentice. The pair came up with the idea when neither one of them could find a match to set fire to a pile of money.”

“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

“Carol Burnett put it best when she described labor pains. She said, "Take your bottom lip, and pull it over your head."”