The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. – Helen Wills Moody
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there. – Hanya Yanagihara
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. – Hunter S. Thompson
It’s Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it’s human to do them. – Hugh Mackay
I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I’ve been free ever since. – Harmony Korine
Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. – Gene Wolfe
In 1989, when I was just a baby, we moved to France because of some conflicts that were brewing in Armenia. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of. – Guy Ritchie
I’m really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them. – G. Hannelius
When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it’s so embedded in what we do that we don’t have to think about. – Harvey V. Fineberg
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it’s in 3D, it bothers you. – Gavin Hood
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. – Henry Fielding
This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff’s case to a colander, because it was so full of holes. – George Jessel
It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled – based on one occasion out of hundreds. – Gerald Walpin
There are times when I don’t take roles because I don’t want to be perceived a certain way. – Harvey Fierstein
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. – George Gilder
I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them. – H. P. Lovecraft
There are no ‘political prisoners’ as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
