French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they

have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself. Mireille Guiliano

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually. Elizabeth Debicki

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating. George Ayittey

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights. Alan Sugar

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children. Columba Bush

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative. Tod Machover

It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on. Bubba Watson

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine. Ogden Nash

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. Guillermo Cabrera Infante