Melvilles Typee Quotes

#1. Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

Robert Harris

#2. Indonesia is just treading water when we are supposed to be bringing about change

Joesoef Isak

#3. The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.

M.F. Moonzajer

#4. I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

Kate Moss

#5. Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

Peter Beard

#6. The depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christians is either minimized - since we are already justified - or psychologized as a symptom of woundedness rather than corruption.

John Owen

#7. When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!

Jamie Oliver

#8. Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Theodore Roethke

#9. I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

Erin Heatherton

#10. We have to get to a hospital," Elysia said, straining under the weight of Ferbus. "We're losing him."
"Your FACE is losing him," Ferbus confirmed.

Gina Damico

#11. He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

Irving Stone

#12. I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch