"Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down."

-- Henry Tizard

#Science Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Invention Quotes

“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate. Being so alone a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human worth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.”

Source : "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'" ("Liberation & Revenge", 2005), www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!”
“So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Life has become a state of sensory overload.”
“George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.”
“We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.”
“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.”

Source : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”

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