"Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool."

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Source : Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

Jonathan Stroud

#Taken Quotes #Style Quotes #Checks Quotes

“People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.”
“On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.”

Source : "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.
“I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.”
“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.”
“I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.”
“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”

Source : "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.
“First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?”
“Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.”

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