"What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it."

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Source : In Lord David Cecil 'The Young Melbourne' (1939) ch. 9

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#Order Quotes #Awards Quotes #Merit Quotes

“And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.”
“Who are you, what are you doing here, who is Hood, why does he want Julie, and where is Julie's mother?" "Is that all!" He wiped the red smudge off his lip with the back of his hand. "Yes. No. Why is the cauldron important, where did it go, how is Morrigan involved, where do you go when you disappear, and why do you keep stealing the maps? Okay, now that's everything.”
“At my house I have a full-size time machine that Iâ€™ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at peopleâ€™s faces when they walk into my office. Theyâ€™re literally astounded.”

Source : "Brains, Blood, and BBQ: Welcome to Greg Nicotero’s Zombie School". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. March 2014.
“We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.”
“Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.”
“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”
“You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.”
“People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.”

Source : Angus Wilson, Kerry McSweeney (1984). “Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson”, Viking Adult

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