"Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile."

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Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.173, Del Rey

Ben Aaronovitch

#Phones Quotes #Library Quotes #Bats Quotes

“I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.”
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
“My job is to put on a great performance. Every time I step in the ring, my job is to perform at top level and to give the people, give the crowd, give the audience what they came to see and that is a good show and, of course, everybody wants to see knockouts and that's what I like to do.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“You were created on purpose for a purpose.”

Source : Reggie McNeal (2013). “Get Off Your Donkey!: Help Somebody and Help Yourself”, p.45, Baker Books
“My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.”
“If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.”

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