Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan. – Utada Hikaru
A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn’t work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do. – Susan Hill
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it’s about her. – Yoko Ono
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again. – William Kidd
I wouldn’t dare to speculate as to Cleopatra’s falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that. – Stacy Schiff
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her. – Vitruvius
The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her. – Sam Kean
I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously. – Zooey Deschanel
I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal. – Theophilus London
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. – Sri Aurobindo
When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers. – Tim Finchem
One of the many pleasures of ‘Versailles’ is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was. – Stacey D’Erasmo
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right. – Susan Holloway Scott
I have nothing but praise for J. K. Rowling. Her contribution – apart from the books themselves, obviously – is showing writers how to interact with the 21st Century. – Terry Hayes
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen’s wonderful – this sort of comedy coming from her. I mean, all of her books are comic. – Whit Stillman
Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming ‘Hairspray.’ It’s so weird because I grew up watching her. – Zac Efron
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. – Thomas Sydenham
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean. – William H. Seward
