Saltation Quotes & Sayings

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it. — Melina Marchetta

It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief. — Durgesh Satpathy

It is culture that is the bully.
Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation — Sharon Lee

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships - a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most. — Abraham Flexner

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today. — Lois Lowry

Hitler will live forever; and maybe I will. — Mark Collett

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it. — Kate Bush

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream. — Rene Redzepi