Robert Harris Fatherland Quotes

#1. I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

Grace Hartigan

#2. The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#3. I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

Ronee Blakley

#4. You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

George Lucas

#5. One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

Tim Armstrong

#6. The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

Pamela Druckerman

#7. How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad.
How sweet is yesterday's noise

Charles Wright

#8. Today I will pursue Francesca. And she will run if she knows what's good for her.

J.L. Vallance

#9. One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity
not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

Terri E Apter

#10. You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But ... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

Neil Gaiman

#11. A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Marco Pierre White

#12. Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

Sheryl Crow

#13. You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you?" Charlie McGuire, Fatherland

Robert Harris

#14. When someone talks bad about you, it's probably that they have nothing good to say about themselves. Just ... forget about it!

Timothy Pina