"...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it."

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Source : Michael Cadnum (2010). “Flash”, p.3, Macmillan

Michael Cadnum

#Smile Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.”
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.”
“There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Alexia,â€ she hissed to her friend, â€œthere are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?”
“Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.”
“God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.”
“I've been on the road since 1967.”
“The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.”

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