"When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt."

-- Clive Cussler

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“We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.”
“A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.”
“Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.”

Source : Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”
“Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.”

Source : M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.311, Simon and Schuster
“If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.”
“I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not...I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman.”
“I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but Iâ€™m having this one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Mar 14, 2014
“The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.”

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