“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.” TwoUsedLostGivenDifficultPovertyMinesResearchDevotionEnthusiasmPensFountainPencilsProvokedNickelsFountain PensBallpoint Pens Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.” FeelsKindMadeBookHandsGivenFeltChanceNumbersMinesWeaponsCriticsSizeReputationSatNew BooksRectifyGiven A ChanceBring Me Down Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.” IfsBookMovingGivenFrontsMinesBookstoresProminence Author:Maeve Binchy
“A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.” TryingSaidShowsOpportunityGivenChallengesMinesShow BusinessFlip Author:Steve Martin
“It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.” KnowsMenSoulBodyGivenMinesRevitalization Author:Walter Russell