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“I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.”
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“It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.”
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“It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.”
Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
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“Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.”
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“It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge? … The truth is that I am prone to bouts of doubt and sadness around these questions. But I have hope. Our hope is dependent upon education. Our hope depends on how serious we become about the education of our people.”
Source : Noel Pearson (2009). “Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope: Education & Equality in Australia”, p.11, Black Inc.
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“I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.”
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“The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.”
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“When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.”
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“Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.”
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“Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.†Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. “Yes,†she whispered back. “I promise.†And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.”
