Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEYIt makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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