Famous quotes containing the words offer and/or access:
“In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself. -- Heavens! cried Isabella ... what do I hear! You, my lord! You! my father in law! the father of Conrad! the husband of the virtuous and tender Hippolita! -- I tell you, said Manfred imperiously, Hippolita is no longer my wife; I divorce her from this hour.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (19161962)