“Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.”

“Nigel Barton:Everyone says 'Up at Oxford'. You come 'down' when you've finished there.Harry Barton: Well, what's this then? Does bloody Oxford move up and down the bloody map then?”

“When he adopted Western methods, it was in a purely utilitarian spirit. He gave no thought to the principles on which our civilisation is based. It was the finished product he was after and not the process.”

“I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!--Mat Cauthon”

“Failure is not fatal nor that you are finished but the result of unfinished product waiting to be reproduced, reprocessed and polished. Failure is that you have learned your omissions, mistakes or what you did not do right or well at the last attempt. You can transform failure into a fortune by dealing with what went wrong. Failure is only a product of uncorrected mistakes.”

“Georgia tutted under her breath. 'I'm loud sometimes,' she said, thinking So bloody what if I'm quiet - what's the thing about it?”