"I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go."

-- Sophie Thompson

#Kings Quotes #Reading Quotes #Son Quotes

“I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.”
“You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no.”

Source : Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Passion”, p.20, HQN Books
“The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.”

Source : "One on One with Phil Esposito" by Andrew Podnieks, www.hhof.com. February 18, 2002.
“Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.”
“Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr
“The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.”
“And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.”

Source : Alan Sokal (2010). “Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture”, p.141, OUP Oxford

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