Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEYThen 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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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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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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