Southall Quotes

#1. I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.

Catherine Jinks

#2. Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#3. The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#4. What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#5. I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player

Neville Southall

#6. Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#7. Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.

Neville Southall

#8. But there was a streak in me, a perverse one, which prevented me from giving the essential self. This "perversity" always voiced itself thus: "Reveal your true self and they will mutilate you.

Henry Miller

#9. Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well.
Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly.

Dan Brown

#10. I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#11. The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

Laozi

#12. Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

Claude C. Hopkins

#14. We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#15. Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Derek Landy

#16. The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#17. I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#18. Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#19. Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#20. Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#21. The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Norman Granz