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.
ALAN BRADLEYChicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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 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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