Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore Quotes & Sayings

But I don't want to be grateful. I'm tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it's no worse. I've had enough. It's time the pebble kicked back. — Frances Hardinge

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting. — Charles Durning

Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren't missing those things at all - rather, we just don't notice them when they're there because we fly right by them on our way to something else. — Tom Walsh

To Sir Clement, my Lord," said I, "attribute nothing. He is the last man in the world who would have any influence over my conduct. — Fanny Burney

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think. — David Rakoff

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin! — Baron De Montesquieu

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life. — Henri Nouwen

they expect the first mammoth in 5,000 years to be born. — Yuval Noah Harari

I'd been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me. — Cheryl Strayed

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all. — Cathy Davidson

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners. — Mary McCarthy

Having gained experience, you can help others and discover your destination and unique gift — Sunday Adelaja