Quotes About Archaelogists

#1. Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

Janet Wallach

#2. After all, when one approaches Middle Age ... "
"Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane?"
"No, never," said Miss Thane, looking blandly up at him.
"You have been undeservedly fortunate," said Sir Tristram grimly.

Georgette Heyer

#3. How many spanks have you had, Julia?" Damien asked.
"Two, Sir."
"What colour are you on?"
"Mortification," she mumbled.

Sierra Cartwright

#4. It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

Thomas Keneally

#6. I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

Akira Kurosawa

#7. I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Art Buchwald

#8. A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

William Lyon Phelps