Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. " "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.
I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.