Bursill Hall Quotes

#1. I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

Edan Lepucki

#2. Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston

#3. We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

Lee Boyd Malvo

#4. ...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

Robert Whitaker

#5. Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Mikhail Bakunin

#6. The skiff swung gently, drifting in the current. He undid his shirt to the waist and put one forearm to his eyes. He could hear the river talking softly beneath him, heavy old river with wrinkled face

Cormac McCarthy

#7. You can love a person without loving everything about that person.

Mary Higgins Clark

#8. If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Georges Courteline

#9. The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

Carolina Herrera

#10. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into ... the Roland Zone!

Stephen King

#11. I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gilbert Hernandez

#12. God can never be outdone in generousity and compassion but that should not stop us from trying.

Lucas Michael

#13. The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Jan Timman