Watchlist Quotes

#1. That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Zadie Smith

#2. For, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

John Keats

#3. You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area ...

Ron Atkinson

#4. Snow. Sun. Sandstone. Sky. He was doing what he liked and knew. It was now. And this now had no pressure, just permission. - James Galvin

Scott Jurek

#5. All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

Hudson Taylor

#6. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Max Beerbohm

#7. We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.

John Sulston

#8. Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Origen

#9. Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

Heather Brooke

#10. And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased.

Lauren Oliver