“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not work without gravity feed. Scientists undertook extensive research, finally developed high-technology pen to work in conditions… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, but when I talk about this business of my father and Valentina with my women friends, they’re absolutely appalled. They see a vulnerable old man who’s being exploited. Yet all the men I talk to—without any exception, Mike” (I wag my finger) “they respond with these wry knowing smiles, these little admiring chuckles. Oh, what a lad he… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks, we will… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master,… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.” — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Da, sve otkako je čovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging surface is… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Pappa, just stop and think for a minute. Is this really what you want?” “Hmm. What I want?” (he pronounces it ‘vat I vant’).… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be his condition… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
