Lawrence Beesley Quotes

#1. One of the library occupants was Lawrence Beesley, a Dulwich College science master seeking new chances in America (his small son grew up to marry Dodie Smith, the author of The 101 Dalmatians).

Richard Davenport-Hines

#2. If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

Sears, Roebuck And Co.

#3. Winners dont do different things,they do things differently

Shiv Khera

#4. When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.

Lawrence Beesley

#5. He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.'
There was an uncomfortable silence.
'That sounds ... extreme,' Jason ventured.

Rick Riordan

#6. It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#7. What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

Richard Rorty

#8. You're never too worried as a captain, when you know Rahul Dravid's still out there.

Sourav Ganguly

#9. We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

Henry Fairlie

#10. From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Nadine Gordimer