R. B. Sheridan Quotes

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

No one's book is perfect.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in – a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

If you don't listen to that gentle, yet persistent voice within, you betray yourself.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Communism, ” I observed, “is a pile of wank.

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.'Librarian: 'Okay.''--'Librarian: '--''--'Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!

The library is a symbol of freedom.

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

The universe rewards action.

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

An amiable weakness.

The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

Honest communication is a rare thing.