Midnight Express Book Quotes & Sayings

I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense curiosity that no Keep Out sign could mute. Physicists do, of course, show a healthy respect for High Voltage, Radiation, and Liquid Hydrogen signs. They are not reckless. I can think of only six who have been killed on the job. — Luis Walter Alvarez

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody;
for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject. — George MacDonald

We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One who can know another person's heart. — Toni Sorenson

You've got the right of it. My wife. . . my duchess, she must be beyond reproach. We can never be in the gossips' stews. — Eva Devon

Education is political. — Noel Castree