Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles Quotes

#1. My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

Francesca Annis

#2. From the backseat of the pick-up stepped Dr. Marconi. I tried to imagine the conversation the three of them had on the way over, and my brain just spat out error messages.

David Wong

#3. This was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as innocent as the heart of a rose.

Elspeth Huxley

#4. But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

J.G. Ballard

#5. Our wish is that ... [there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Happiness is tied to circumstance and joyfulness is tied to spirit and gratitude.

Brene Brown

#7. I like to make collages - paper collages.

Rachel True

#8. My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

Gillian Jacobs