Lectureship Positions Quotes

#1. Once upon a time there was a banana and it grew. It grew until it was large, firm, yellow and fragrant. Then it fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it and afterwards that person felt better.

Martel, Yann

#2. Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

John Boyne

#3. Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'

Maya Angelou

#4. Is often a good career move for an author.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Summer and Winter were not supposed to fall in love.

Julie Kagawa

#6. It had all been a storm in a teacup.

David Howarth

#7. He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#8. I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Cass Canfield

#10. If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Aesop

#11. The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

John J. Pershing