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EARL BLACK I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true ...
DAN PEARCE Jamaal Charles reminds me of Barry Sanders or Gale Sayers or somebody like that. He just can go, and...
BOBBY LACKEY I never had to break up a fight or worry about someone getting upset with somebody else because some...
BILL WHITEHEAD There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to lo...
MARK TWAIN The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a cam...
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DANIEL SULLIVAN Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself
JAMES VAN DER ZEE Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are kille...
MARK HOLTHAUS It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or ...
KATEE SACKHOFF There is something really amazing about you.. Your unique ideas and thoughts that you bring to this ...
RACHEL HAMILTON I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's n...
DAVID ANTIN When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no ...
JAMES TAGGART Certainly, content companies are taking that position now of, I'm not sure I want to license it to y...
BOB GREENE That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or kil...
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BRUCE BOXLEITNER Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, so...
CRYSTAL MOORE The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may b...
VINCE GILL These situations are always solved by somebody in the public knowing something. What we do know is s...
DON WOOD The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else&...
CHARLEY PRIDE Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when some...
FREDERICK BUECHNER What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there's somebody out there in the parking lot...
PHIL GINGREY People definitely wait outside my house, hotel, apartment, whatever, asking for hugs or autographs.
NIKKI REED so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad t...
JANET KAGAN It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.
CORNELIA FUNKE It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
ROALD DAHL Control your fate or somebody else will
HEINRICH VON PIERER I know I can play ball. It's just a matter of me getting to do it here or someone else.
AMOS ZEREOUE Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... re...
DIRK BENEDICT The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are p...
SEAMUS HEANEY 33. Satan will attempt to offer you whatever you hunger for, whether it be money, power, sex, or pre...
JAMES C. DOBSON Unfortunately, people are getting defrauded all the time. Sometimes there's criminal activity, and o...
KAREN ERNST I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse...
TIM TEBOW I get out of bounds and when I'm getting up, somebody pushed me back down. I grabbed the ref to get ...
STEVE SMITH People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealo...
JILL SCOTT I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is...
CHRISTINA RICCI We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, ...
BERNHARD LANGER Whatever profit you're making on those customers, getting that extra year or so out of them can make...
DYLAN BROOKS People were complaining that on the big sites they weren't finding people that shared their spiritua...
ERIK CURREN Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
CASEY (CHARLES DILLON) STENGEL Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
CASEY STENGEL These are people that don't want to use it complaining that somebody else might not be able to use i...
GEORGE DAVIDSON The people who tend to get hurt while running are those who are just getting started or those who ar...
FRANK KELLY Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents...
CANDACE BUSHNELL Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
JOHN G. POLLARD Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
JOHN G. POLLARD Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
EARL NIGHTINGALE He knows for him to play on Sunday, he has to dominate this level. We are getting scouts in here. If...
DERRICK BURROUGHS He went into hiding, which is a good thing. You don't want to confront somebody (who could) possibly...
TED WHITE This way, somebody can have the keepsake or whatever, but then also it helps out wrestling and hopef...
RULON GARDNER I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatev...
BUCHI EMECHETA Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not wa...
BILLIE JEAN KING Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
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JAMES C. DOBSON There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfri...
HANNAH MURRAY The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even thou...
HOWARD WHITMAN People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
HALE IRWIN On occasion anyone who does any amount of this is going to get hit, or you are going to hit somebody...
CLINT WALKER Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
CARLY SCHROEDER It shouldn't be up to somebody else you know. The President, the government, the township or whateve...
CINDY MURPHY Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is ...
DEYTH BANGER Physicians are no different than you or me. They have a mortgage payment. They have tuition payments...
MARK PETERS It's feast or famine. Some are getting (sales growth through discounts), some are getting it at full...
BOB BUCHANAN Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today'...
RON VOS You can play against somebody else or play against yourself.
GRAYSON ROBBINS You shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are just because somebody else has a problem with it.
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DON KEEN It could be someone is in somebody else's neighborhood or gave them a mean glance. Somebody bumped i...
CAPT. RICHARD CONKLIN We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
EDWARD DAHLBERG To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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HELGE HELLBERG I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what peo...
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GALE SAYERS There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reas...
GALE SAYERS Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
GALE SAYERS Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we h...
GALE GORDON I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
GALE GORDON My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
GALE GORDON The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ...
GALE GORDON I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
ZONA GALE The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the...
GALE NORTON I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out th...
GALE GORDON I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution c...
GALE NORTON These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the fi...
GALE NORTON It's what we work out over the next few weeks.
BRENDON GALE But, having said that, there is a strong awareness of the players that we will have the situation re...
BRENDON GALE It exceeds community expectations and it displays we are committed in the fight against illicit drug...
BRENDON GALE Most people would understand that there should be recognition of the value the players do bring to t...
BRENDON GALE It is such a departure, free agency is a significant shift, so that will be a discussion for another...
BRENDON GALE feel free to call... as questions arise.
GALE NORTON communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.
GALE NORTON without leaving a footprint.
GALE NORTON I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire east...
GALE NORTON a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing e...
GALE NORTON This new partnership is an example of how the public sector and private industry can work together t...
GALE NORTON We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in dema...
GALE NORTON Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regul...
GALE NORTON His intention has been to take responsibility for what he's done. He knows he has taken somebody's l...
RICHARD GALE Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds ...
GALE NORTON The general mood was disrespectful and scornful.
WILLIAM GALE They're happier because they have one bill instead of two or three.
GALE GIVEN Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.
DAVID GALE The decision to go from an individual state lotto game to a multistate game is a natural evolution. ...
DAVID GALE We are very excited to be working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game into a...
DAVID GALE We were tracking this project really early on, and it really was about the material itself for us. I...
DAVID GALE Lotteries are like any other business that are selling a product -- they have to advertise.
DAVID GALE The key really is distribution.
DAVID GALE Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is ...
GALE NORTON The cliff just caved away like a glacier. It just sheared off that old wall. There's this gigantic s...
JIM GALE My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
GALE NORTON The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing t...
GALE NORTON If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail ...
GALE KAUFMAN I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to fig...
GALE NORTON This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they do...
GALE KAUFMAN The two hurricanes coming so close together really illustrate how much of our offshore production wa...
GALE NORTON It's got a big tax cut built into it. That's not a footnote, but a front and center important issue.
WILLIAM GALE Julia is the girl next door who's a bit of an outsider and just a little funky. The idea was to keep...
GREGORY GALE He may or may not get out someday. If he does it won't be for at least 20 years.
RICHARD GALE The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort
ZONA GALE Although I've never pressed sexual harassment charges against him, I guess a lot of it comes from th...
TRISTAN GALE This January thaw lasted way too long.
JODY GALE Blake is coming off an injury and we are bringing him back slowly. He is coming back very well.
GALE GROSS The red ink in the market is no more than expected.
ERIC GALE I've had high regard for a great many actors. I started out as a serious actor. I didn't start out a...
GALE GORDON My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON Lucille didn't care about messing herself up. A lot of stars of her stature wouldn't do physical com...
GALE GORDON I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to...
GALE GORDON Lucille would never allow anyone to double for her. If she had to learn how to ice skate, she'd ice ...
GALE GORDON I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
GALE GORDON I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON We are very excited to be working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game into an...
DAVID GALE I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out th...
GALE GORDON My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have ...
GALE GORDON Radio wasn't so bad because you didn't have to memorize the lines. But you did have to do everything...
GALE GORDON The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ...
GALE GORDON When I'd tell people that I wanted $150 they almost fainted. They thought I was an upstart and an eg...
GALE GORDON The opposition is hoping to put a tougher challenge this time around.
BRUCE GALE I don't really think the business sector is really concerned one way or another. Nothing is riding o...
BRUCE GALE Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
GALE NORTON I believe he understands the concepts.
RICHARD GALE Calls are certainly up and we are taking on another 25 staff.
RICHARD GALE Lent is a time to reflect on Jesus dying on the cross.
LAURA GALE Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It's a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent.
LAURA GALE We came up with a sort of '80s Richter scale. We didn't want everyone to scream '80s.
GREGORY GALE We didn't want to make fun of the '80s. It's such an important part of the play. We wanted to be tru...
GREGORY GALE Let's face it. It's obviously a time for caution. People are a bit quieter and taking things a bit s...
ERIC GALE I don't think the market is terribly worried about inflation but there is an expectation that corpor...
ERIC GALE The market is still recovering from a pretty strong close to June.
ERIC GALE He had the backbone to fashion his own agenda.
WILLIAM GALE They're telling kind of a big lie about tax reform.
WILLIAM GALE Imagine if we had privatized Social Security, and all these people had $50,000 or $100,000 in their ...
WILLIAM GALE We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
GALE NORTON I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem...
GALE NORTON When I wrote to him, he was still starring in 'Third Rock,' so kids knew who he was. And I think he'...
DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE We were tracking this project really early
on, and it really was about the material itself for ...
DAVID GALE We are very excited to be
working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game i...
DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE It lifts some of the barriers that keep us from competing on a level playing field.
GALE GIVEN We look at it as trying to meet our customers' needs. We know some people are going to drop one serv...
GALE GIVEN Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Men try to intimidate women out of the kitchen.
GALE GAND They have performed well all year. They are where we expected them to be.
GALE GROSS It was a personal record for Josh by more than two feet. He had gone 47 feet in our previous meet, s...
GALE GROSS All we're asking for is some time.
GALE KLEINKOPF We've based our entire economy on agriculture. Is this what we want to do -- ship all our water out ...
GALE KLEINKOPF There will be a tremendous amount of work after the roll-out.
GALE KLAPPA If it's not easy to get the information, that region will lose that opportunity.
GALE KLAPPA The lack of a regional effort up to this point has been an impediment.
GALE KLAPPA We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, .....
GALE KAUFMAN This is the first election that's about him .
GALE KAUFMAN Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
GALE KAUFMAN There is so much anger about the governor holding this election that we're not worried about turnout...
GALE KAUFMAN This governor is spending $80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have...
GALE KAUFMAN I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. ...
GALE KAUFMAN It's a phony election that he creates on issues that every poll says voters don't care about and he'...
GALE KAUFMAN We don't want them to play in 35 mph winds. It's not fair to either team.
GALE HOWARD She wants to go out with a good year as a senior. She's focused.
GALE HOWARD It was my dream for several years to own a Friesian.
GALE WOLFE So we're looking forward to a matched pair of driving horses pulling that sleigh next year.
GALE WOLFE It took a full two months from the day I paid for her until I got her.
GALE WOLFE There aren't any shelters out there.
GALE RUSSELL We were called by the Lord to do this mission.
GALE RUSSELL That's what separates shelters from the mission.
GALE RUSSELL We run the business 24 hours a day. We're grateful for Amazon. It has provided us with a lot of oppo...
GALE PETRONIS We saw the potential in Orlando; it really seemed like it was going to take off.
GALE PETRONIS In a family business, it's the third generation that presents the big problems. The first generation...
GALE PETRONIS Different states have different attitudes on this,
GALE NORTON Our approach has been to have a balanced energy policy, and today's decision indicates that balance....
GALE NORTON We don't have an international market
GALE NORTON Eating together is important family time; it validates the importance in family and offers good soci...
GALE MILLS We offer it to all schools, grades 3 to 8.
GALE MILLS ? Natatakot ako na baka hindi ako alalahanin ng mga tao kapag nawala na ako sa mundo. Hindi naman sa...
GALE KELIER We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back to...
GALE FORMAN It's an audience that appreciates what I have.
LAURA GALE It will be a little city out there by 5 a.m..
JODY GALE I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion
ZONA GALE It's totally possible that that happens.
TRISTAN GALE If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (One character on another:)

"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

"Well...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS