The Letters of Samuel Becket 1929–1940 (2009), p. 209
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
quote of Karel Appel: from the conversation with Rudy Fuchs in 1990; as quoted in 'The Low Countries', Jaargang 12(2004) on DBNL (Dutch Librairy online) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php
“Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Treason (1988)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English writer
On the British government's decision to build the Singapore Naval Base, in an article for the Westminster Gazette (13 October 1923)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English writer
The Informative Content of Education http://books.google.com/books?&id=vLs4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+believe+that+the+crazy+combative+patriotism+that+plainly+threatens+to+destroy+civilisation+to-day+is+very+largely+begotten+by+the+schoolmaster+and+the+schoolmistress+in+their+history+lessons+They+take+the+growing+mind+at+a+naturally+barbaric+phase+and+they+inflame+and+fix+its+barbarism%22&pg=PA242#v=onepage Speech http://archive.org/stream/reportofbritisha37adva#page/242/mode/2up given at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Nottingham, England on 2 September 1937
“I feel we are in that kind of phase.”
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943) British scientist
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Context: I have this sense that we need to picture cosmology, the evolution of the universe in a whole new way. I'm probably not one that can achieve this new thinking but somebody will and I feel at the moment we're kind of waiting for it to happen. A bit like a pregnant pause. A bit like what happens when there's a snowfall, first snowfall of the year, when everything goes quiet and kind of waits. I feel we are in that kind of phase.
