"I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Sibling Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Irresistible Quotes

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”
“I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.”
“From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.”
“I feel at home in an orchestral score.”
“It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.”
“I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.”
“I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.”
“No one will ever make necessity not happen.”

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