"...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal..."

“I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.”

“Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.577, Random House

“You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I reckon they howl like that because they're so hungry it hurts, and that's what I feel in me every day of my life. I'm so hungry to be somethin' - to be somebody. You hear me?' He did. 'I'm not lyin' down ever. Not for you. Not for anyone.' I ended it. 'I'm hungry, Steve.' Sometimes I think they're the best words I've ever said. 'I'm hungry.”

“Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.”

Source : "PBS's Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

“I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.”

Source : "Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl tell The Ugly Truth". Interview with Lynn Barker, www.sheknows.com. July 21, 2009.

“Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.”

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

Source : "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.