"James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background"

-- Steven Knight

#Oysters Quotes #Class Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Andrew Preston and I moved to Florida, to get some air. Am I going to live there forever? No, I'm not. But I have a warehouse, all white, concrete floors, a big, big space with very high ceilings and nothing inside. And that's where I go to work, and I like that because I just like to be alone and quiet. Is it explainable as a typical fashion designer? No. But am I a typical fashion designer? I don't think so.”
“At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (1997). “Drums of Autumn”
“I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.”
“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
“On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.”
“Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.”
“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”

Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press
“Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.”

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