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Diana Gabaldon

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All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
DIANA GABALDON It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how ...
NEIL GAIMAN I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
DONALD MILLER At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which...
YEHUDA BERG When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.
ALEXA VON TOBEL Obviously, you can?t discount how much (Diana) meant because nobody?s ever meant more to any team th...
GENO AURIEMMA Whatever opportunity has provided,do it at the first given moment as if you leave for the next momen...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much ...
HENRY MILLER Instead of asking -- ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask -- ''How...
HENRY MILLER If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the w...
MARY OLIVER I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyon...
HAROLD BRODKEY If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
GUY ALMES Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never act...
ALAN PARKER Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never l...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never l...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life ...
EDWARD GOREY The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfec...
BRIAN D. MCLAREN When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that...
PENELOPE WARD It was done creatively -- mission accomplished,
GUY WOMACK Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH At the end of our life, author Jack Kornfield says, the most important question is not how hard we w...
ESTHER EARL At any given moment, you have the power to say that this is NOT how the story is going to END
M.H.S. POURRI There's a lot of work left to be done. We can't afford to sit on our laurels about what we've accomp...
ANTHONY HARRIS If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
BRUCE LEE Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy a...
JOHN WATERS I never thought I could win again here on such a difficult course, which is why it means so much to ...
HERMANN MAIER I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integri...
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KARTOHOMEONLINE It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
JOHN WOODEN Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NEITZCHE Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
CONFUCIUS Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
WILSON MIZNER Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
HUEY NEWTON If I'd known there was this much prep work involved, I wouldn't have done it.
JACKIE SHERRILL At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDAL The best you can be at any given moment is yourself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I was really never in any trouble.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSON You almost never see work of consequences being accomplished by one person alone. Everyone works as ...
BOB BECKER I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put ...
SEAN ASTIN If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
BOB EDWARDS If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
HELEN GIANGREGORIO You end up feeling like part of a community. You see how much work is left to be done. It's hard to ...
HOLLY VEUM Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, an...
CHRISTINA HENRY We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFF We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFF We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFF If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
BRUCE LEE Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?
THOMAS HARDY There is no doubt about it that the work being done at some of the Indian subsidiaries of multinatio...
MARC HEBERT Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only m...
DONALD MILLER Life wasn't about doubt, because if it was, we'd never get anything done.
AISHABELLA SHEIKH Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but nev...
L.J. SHEN I pretty much approach every season never thinking about what I accomplished the year before.
JERRY RICE I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav...
TITUSS BURGESS I decided I'm done trying to work it out with you because if you never cared in the first place then...
MICHAELA D. To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played th...
JERRY RICE To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, ... it was about the way I playe...
JERRY RICE Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potenti...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ...
CHRISTINE QUINN How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did ...
PORTER GOSS The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decid...
KAREN KAKASCIK It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bell...
STEPHENIE MEYER You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work...
RICHARD BACH You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to wor...
RICHARD BACH Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
ROBERT BENCHLEY It was terrifying because I kept expecting it to happen to me at any moment. But I felt fine and I d...
RASTE KHAN See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone t...
ALEXIS ARGUELLO At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we ...
TABITHA SUZUMA We never had a script, per se. There was never any real structure about it. It was all very much off...
JAMES SANFORD Sometimes this is how it is...that time doesn't want to know about the work done but work done does.
IDDI LUKOO see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to...
RICHARD BACH You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to ...
RICHARD BACH Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
DAVID LEVITHAN Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY It was great. I've never done anything like that before. I'm shocked, and I don't think we know what...
COURTNEY WILSON I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat l...
JANET FITCH I've never been given a satisfactory explanation for why what was seen at the start as criminal acti...
GORDON MACINNES It shows all of our hard work that we've done. It also shows how much we can still achieve.
ANDREW JOHNSON We've never done a big tour! At the moment we're juggling our gigs around work but hopefully that wo...
KATE JACKSON I don't know how many people went into the school when she was there. I don't know if any talking wa...
CHRISTINE ROBINSON A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with th...
RICHARD CARLSON You never know how much of it is him just trying to fill a role that’s being created or if it’s si...
BRANDEN STEINECKERT I don?t know how many people went in there while she was there. I don?t know if any talking was done...
CHRISTINE ROBINSON well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded
-Diana, Princess of Wale...
CATHY LOWNE Here's how man thinks: "If no one’s done it, why should I try? It’s a waste of time; but if he�...
NABIL N. JAMAL The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it ha...
JACKIE ROBINSON From the moment (the contract) was done, we haven't thought about it since.
ALLAN WALSH How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.
LLOYD ALEXANDER True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed wa...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

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DIANA GABALDON Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
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DIANA GABALDON Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
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DIANA GABALDON The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
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DIANA GABALDON So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?"
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DIANA GABALDON You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
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DIANA GABALDON Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
DIANA GABALDON I had one last try.
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DIANA GABALDON Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed.

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DIANA GABALDON It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
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DIANA GABALDON We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for...
DIANA GABALDON Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime
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DIANA GABALDON Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
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DIANA GABALDON Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
DIANA GABALDON I want to hold you hard to me and kiss you, and never let you go. I want to take you to my bed and u...
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DIANA GABALDON And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for yo...
DIANA GABALDON I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began t...
DIANA GABALDON I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye cons...
DIANA GABALDON A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.

No, I thought. I won't...
DIANA GABALDON Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels...
DIANA GABALDON You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the prote...
DIANA GABALDON When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for...
DIANA GABALDON Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my...
DIANA GABALDON When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller li...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime," I said softly, "are you happy about it? About the baby?" Outlawed in Scotland, barred from h...
DIANA GABALDON Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
DIANA GABALDON While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever t...
DIANA GABALDON Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind,...
DIANA GABALDON Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
DIANA GABALDON Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?"

Aroused by my voice, ...
DIANA GABALDON ...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually i...
DIANA GABALDON Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score<...
DIANA GABALDON All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I lo...
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DIANA GABALDON I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.
DIANA GABALDON Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you ...
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DIANA GABALDON Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Engl...
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DIANA GABALDON I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'...
DIANA GABALDON But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupp...
DIANA GABALDON I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye lik...
DIANA GABALDON You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your reve...
DIANA GABALDON For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live withou...
DIANA GABALDON Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finis...
DIANA GABALDON For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my d...
DIANA GABALDON Do you really think we'll ever--"

"I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. ...
DIANA GABALDON You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
DIANA GABALDON We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.
DIANA GABALDON Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed...
DIANA GABALDON When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me,...
DIANA GABALDON Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
DIANA GABALDON I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can...
DIANA GABALDON Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thi...
DIANA GABALDON Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.
DIANA GABALDON If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for te...
DIANA GABALDON You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go
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DIANA GABALDON I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped m...
DIANA GABALDON I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgator...
DIANA GABALDON What's that you're doing, Sassenach?"

"Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so fa...
DIANA GABALDON Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...
DIANA GABALDON All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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DIANA GABALDON 'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'
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DIANA GABALDON I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's n...
DIANA GABALDON There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had th...
DIANA GABALDON As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal'...
DIANA GABALDON Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the jo...
DIANA GABALDON I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket...
DIANA GABALDON I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket...
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DIANA GABALDON No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human sou...
DIANA GABALDON What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. DIANA GABALDON I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”

He ...
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DIANA GABALDON All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that,
DIANA GABALDON [Claire travels in time. And while she and Jamie do fall in love, their story is not so much the stu...
DIANA GABALDON Nobody had ever told me how to do these things, ... I didn't want anyone giving me advice until I ha...
DIANA GABALDON My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and the...
DIANA GABALDON There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the m...
DIANA GABALDON How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were ...
DIANA GABALDON My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ...
DIANA GABALDON You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had,...
DIANA GABALDON I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn...
DIANA GABALDON Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do rem...
DIANA GABALDON I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...
DIANA GABALDON To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
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DIANA GABALDON What . . . fellow?” The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie’s ...
DIANA GABALDON The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane" is one, with a list if two hundred paired figu...
DIANA GABALDON For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “...
DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor...
DIANA GABALDON Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c...
DIANA GABALDON I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...
DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment.

"Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead"

He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough,
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me.” He was right; nothing did.
DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'

'Aye, well, mostly.'

A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA