"A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps."

-- James Lighthill

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“Silence has never brought us anything of worth.”
“I really have to pinch myself to believe that I'm part of the TAG Heuer family”
“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”
“In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.”

Source : "What went right?". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.
“I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.”

Source : Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.485, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.”
“The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”
“Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.”

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