"We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel."

“Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.”

“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Source : "This business is hard and really mean" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.

“When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.”

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“Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall.  You can't get that bottle back!”

“Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."”

“In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.”

“To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.”

“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”