Taronga Book Quotes & Sayings

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London. — John Cleese

You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues. — Howard Wolpe

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand
in the same sense that I have understood
that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home. — Hannah Arendt

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself. — Marilynne Robinson

This is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her. — Edwidge Danticat

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill. — Victoria Wood

I'm fine, considering I can't walk anymore," Pam replied, a sarcastic edge in her voice. "You look like your bringing news. What is it this time, I'm blind? — C.B. Cook

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts. — Tristan Perich