John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/
Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
His reaction after he had given away his wealth and legal career and had set up a work camp and started living with common people with his family when he had met a dying leper on the road, pages=6-7
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“Magnets humiliate iron. It's a theory about love.”
Marco Denevi book Falsificaciones
El imán humilla al hierro. Es una teoría sobre el amor.
Falsificaciones (1977)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
As quoted in The Peter Plan : A Proposal for Survival (1976) by Laurence J. Peter
1970s
“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.”
Ambeth R. Ocampo book Rizal Without the Overcoat
Source: Rizal Without the Overcoat
“Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.”
Patricia Briggs book River Marked
Source: River Marked
“Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“It was ironic that even my small triumphs were not attributed to me.”
Lucilla Andrews (1919–2006) British romance novelist
Pippa's Story, cited from 29 June 1968 Woman's Weekly, p. 17