"When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either."

-- Peter Ackroyd

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“The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by Godâ€™s patience, to challenge the worldâ€™s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.”
“I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.”

Source : "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.
“Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.”
“If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.”
“Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does.”
“The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.”
“Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess”
“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

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