Richard Flanagan Quotes

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

Richard Flanagan

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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Jim Harrison

TravelWorldPerceptionRealitySame

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

Maurice Strong

BelieveProblemsEnvironmentNever

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GreatWordsArtistPicturesOthers

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

Tony Parsons

HateReadingPlacesAlwaysBahamas

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.

Robert Crumb

LifeLivePeopleWorldLearnStop

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Robert Wilson

BurnSayStageCallDecoration

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.

Ron Funches

SchoolMomGradesThroughUsSeven

It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.

Michel Temer

DecisionImportantOpenDaring

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Juan Cole

SpeakReadUrduPersianQuiteToo

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

Chris Cornell

MusicIdentityParentsPeopleKnow

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

Chuck Pagano

TomorrowKnowNothingGuaranteed

I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.

Boy George

MeSickRoadProblemGoOut

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