I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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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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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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