"If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world."

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Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.552, Delacorte Press

Alan Bradley

#Inspiration Quotes #Self Quotes #Volcanoes Quotes

“It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.”
“friendship was always contingent.”
“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.”
“Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.”

Source : Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media
“I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.”

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