"Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time."

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Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.212, Del Rey

Naomi Novik

#Together Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.”
“It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
“Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.”
“Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.”
“You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.”
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”

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