"And living in Australia I am relatively well off."

-- Peter Garrett

#Australia Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.”
“In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.”
“DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor.”
“When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. â€¦ We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.”
“I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with.”
“As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.”
“I am not a person to say the words out loud I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page: know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other than my tongue the quiet love the silent rage.”

Source : Keri Hulme (1992). “Strands”, Oxford University Press, USA

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