"When you're not playing your head can drop, and you can get a bit negative. I try to tell them that there are a lot of things they can't control, selection being one of them, and that they should just try to stay positive."

“Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”

“We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.”

“The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.”

“I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell”

“Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC

“I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.”

Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.430, A&C Black