Impish, vivacious, and daring. She was half smoldering, half firecracker. Her face was puckishly heart shaped, her eyes were a mischievous brown, her figure alluring.
Twenty-five percent of the Netherlands is reclaimed land. The whole country is sixteen feet below sea level.
There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER
There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they w...
She used a lot of makeup—thick, dark eyeliner, false eyelashes, colored eye shadow and bright lipstick. It was as though she were trying to hide her beauty.
She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.
Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his...
Newspapers and old magazines were piled everywhere. A door to an inner room burst open and Norman Z. Moody emerged. He was about five foot five and must have weighed three hundred pounds. He rolled as...
Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.
Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn’t. Who knows?
Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They...
Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, ‘Ma fia! Ma fia!
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.
Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you’re human, and they ad...
It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the f...
I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life inyour hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier thanthat?
Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.
Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sen...
Business is a game,’ David told Kate, ‘played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the