"Silver is purified in fire and so are we.  It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed."

“Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.”

Source : Arthur Morrison (2016). “The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison (Including Martin Hewitt Detective Mysteries, Sketches of the Old London Slum & Tales of the Supernatural) - Illustrated: Adventures of Martin Hewitt, The Red Triangle, Tales of Mean Streets, The Dorrington Deed Box, The Green Eye of Goona, Divers Vanities, Green Ginger, Fiddle o' Dreams, The Shadows Around Us & more”, p.1072, e-artnow

“It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.”

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

“My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.”

Source : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.”

Source : David Friedrich Strauss (1846). “The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined”, p.11

“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.”

“Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United”

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”

“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”