"If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog."

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Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

Frances Hardinge

#Men Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Hedgehogs Quotes

“I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.”
“When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.”
“Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming." "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [...] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?”
“The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.”

Source : "Economists Carmen Reinhardt And Ken Rogoff Explain Why Growth Won't Cure Debt" by Courtney Comstock, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2011.
“Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.”
“I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person.”
“I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.”
“The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.”

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