Dr Maturin Quotes & Sayings

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. — Joss Whedon

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well. — Patti Smith

The lines on the page were pulled tight, like a man screaming, but not "Joe, where are you?" More like Joe, where is anything? — Charles Bukowski

22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.m — Anonymous

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist. — Leslie Cockburn

the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. Indeed — George Orwell

Looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.'
'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes
— Patrick O'Brian

If we were alone, he would have thrown me up against the nearest wall, and holy hell, I would have let him. — T.A. Roth

I'm going to start water skiing someday ... as soon as I can separate it from being dragged by a boat. — Rita Rudner

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important. — Boman Irani

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. — Ibrahim Babangida

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life. — Drew Barrymore

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. — Patrick O'Brian

The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow. — Leonard Mlodinow

But, however, I clapped a stopper over his capers.' Dr Maturin was proud of his nautical expressions: sometimes he got them right, but right or wrong he always brought them out with a slight emphasis of satisfaction, much as others might utter a particularly apt Greek or Latin quotation. 'And brought him up with a round stern,' he added. — Patrick O'Brian

It was an operation that Dr. Maturin had carried out at sea before, always in the fullest possible light and therefore on deck, and many of them had seen him do so.
Now they and all their mates saw him do it again: they saw Joe Plaice's scalp taken off, his skull bared, a disc of bone audibly sawn out, the handle turning solemnly; a three-shilling piece, hammered into a flattened dome by the armourer, screwed on over the hole; and the scalp replaced, neatly sewn up by the parson.
It was extremely gratifying - the Captain had been seen to go pale, and Barret Bonden too, the patient's cousin - blood running down Joe's neck regardless - brains clearly to be seen - something not to be missed for a mint of money - instructive, too - and they made the most of it. — Patrick O'Brian

Men are many and take strength as a challenge, difference as a crime. — Mark Lawrence

The world is full of fakes, trust no one. — Me