Clennell Johnson Quotes

#1. Where I come from money isn't to be talked about or flaunted in front of strangers. But Ajax snatched up the wad and counted it out loud, ceremonially, slapping the notes down on the table while the witnesses mouthed the amounts. It was all so public and embarrassing.

John Mole

#2. Hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.'
'In small towns news travel at the speed of boredom'.

Carlos Luiz Zafon

#3. Anna's too young yet to know that the past is just as real as the present, even though you have to pretend that it isn't, and carry on towards the future.

Helen Dunmore

#4. But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#5. A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

H.G.Wells

#7. In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs ... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

Luke Evans

#8. Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

Willard Scott

#9. I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Spike Jonze

#10. My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'
a physical pain, as he used to say
when he was with people who cared only for small talk.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#11. How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth.

Mark Helprin

#12. The more risks you take, the more rewards you will receive.

Robin S. Sharma