"A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise."

-- Ian Wooldridge

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Years Quotes

“We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.”
“If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.”
“Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.”
“The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.”
“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”
“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”

Source : "William Shatner Brings his 'World' to Broadway" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 11, 2012.
“In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.”

Source : "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Stillman Drake (p. 134 - 135), 1957.
“I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.”

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