Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity.

Sharon Kay Penman

Sharon Kay Penman

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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

Dana Rohrabacher
- People
- Job
- Meaning
On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

Dan Shechtman
- Alone
- Field
- April
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Malorie Blackman
- Book
- Remember
- Black
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

Gavin O'Connor
- Up
- Heart
- Home
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

Karin Slaughter
- Time
- Writing
- Home
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

Sally Ride
- Couple
- Years
- Flight