"English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all."

-- M. E. W. Sherwood

#Australia Quotes #People Quotes #Friendly Quotes

“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”
“Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.”
“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.”
“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.”
“Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.”

Source : "Les Prix Nobel". Book published by Nobelstiftelsen, 2001.
“I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.”
“Thatâ€™s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that heâ€™s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.”

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