Great Expectations Orlick Quotes & Sayings

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story. — Lionel Barber

I've had stupid teachers, lazy teachers, boring teachers, teachers who were teachers because their parents were and they hadn't the imagination to think of anything else, teachers who were teachers because of cowardice, because of fear, because of the holidays, because of the pensions, because they were never called to account, never had to actually be any good, ones who could not survive in any other profession, who were not aware they had trod on butterflies. But none of those compared to Mr Maurice Crossan. He was the one who first stamped on my brother's soul. He was dark, as they say here. For those who want more of him visit the dark character of Orlick Dolge in Great Expectations and cross that with a ginger-headed weasel. — Niall Williams

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do. — Mitchell Baker

The world is just waiting for you to come dance. — Tina Marie L. Lamb

Maybe after I saved everyone we could all take a ride on the fucking Ferris wheel ... Fuck was now added to my vocabulary. It was an outstanding word that could basically mean just about anything. It could be used as a noun, verb and adverb. It rolled off the tongue with ease and even if you spoke a foreign language it was difficult not to understand fuck off or off you fuck or fuck you. — Robyn Peterman

I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, 'Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.' In the end, I made a career out of it. — Donna Air

Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw. — Nick Hornby

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. — Catherine Crowe

If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah. — Shannon Hale

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of. — Andrew Solomon

The great hospitals, houses of confinement, establishments of religion and public order, of assistance and punishment, of governmental charity and welfare measures, are a phenomenon of the classical period: — Michel Foucault

It is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers. — Hannah More

When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance. — Darryl Pinckney

If you haven't figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous. — Kurt W. Bubna

Be determined to do good deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An interesting journey never follows a straight path — Marjan Van Den Belt