Diemen Quotes

#1. My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

Richard Flanagan

#2. Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Bernard Arnault

#3. Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Dorothy Parker

#4. You don't speak again, unless to use your safe word or yellow to indicate you're frightened."
"I was at yellow the minute I walked in the door.

Cherise Sinclair

#5. What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Ayn Rand

#6. With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

John Irving

#7. Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.

Jules Verne

#8. Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Brian Greene

#9. Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.

Shaka

#10. Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Neal Shusterman