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Adrian McKinty Quotes

I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1968

Topics

Wife New York Law American New She

I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.

Jillian Michaels

Will Okay Everything Sense Intrinsic

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.

Johannes P. Muller

Opportunity Power Light Space Action

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

Jennifer Connelly

Home Live Window World Looking Out

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

Michael Bastian

Best Sleep Ideas Consciousness Get

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

Life Person Say More Never Whole

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Live Science Religion Economics Try

In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.

Stars Alone January Myself Me Night

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure Forget Principles Objectives

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Work God Path Place Mean Own

Purchased experiences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

Experiences Count Purchased

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Man Happy Lonely Old Man Old Single

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

People Me Like Bore Jonathan

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