Dermaga Oil Quotes

#1. Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

Rachel Kushner

#2. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Everything is a starting point for something else and we work at it until we find the things that are meaningful to us. If we believe in ourselves, others will too.

Judith D. Andrade

#5. Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Paul Theroux

#6. There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons
and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.

Buzz Aldrin

#7. I hope no one will think of ... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

Charles A. Lockwood

#8. Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you.

Cynthia Voigt

#9. To be strong in the Force is one thing. But to believe oneself to be all-powerful is to invite catastrophe. Remember, that even in the ethereal realm we inhabit, the unforeseen can occur.

James Luceno

#10. Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

Gough Whitlam

#11. It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

Edward Bok

#12. The only time she felt excited or happy was when she had had a drink because then anything might happen. That feeling of insecurity became exciting.

Lilian Pizzichini