Patrick White
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"Patrick Victor Martindale White" was an English-born Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.

White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting Point of view (literature)/narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Australian to have been awarded the prize.

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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

We had probably three charges filed in the year and a half the law was in effect ... That roughly indicates the frequency of these offenses.

St. Mary's and Wabash are in one important way very different. Wabash is a college for men; Saint Mary's, of course, a college for women. But both share a respect for students, a commitment to education of the whole person, and a calling of all students to greatness.

The players never really had a beef with anything. When that whole thing happened behind the batting cage, the players were just standing there talking to each other.

We made some adjustments at halftime and began stunting up the middle and that disrupted their option game.

Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

I just had a great time out there. When you get chances, you've got to bury them, and I did.

Duncan asked me a question he probably shouldn't have asked, ... It's a question Tony should have asked. I would have talked to Tony.

It's one of those things where you know the team is better than the way we've played. We see it from time to time. Trouble is, our bad stretches last a little longer, which comes from us having a younger team. We haven't been able to figure out how to kick ourselves in the behind and bounce back faster.

I didn't have my best stuff, but there are no excuses, ... I hit a guy, hung a couple of curves, and I was out of the game.

He wasn't caught, it was a diabetic reaction.

They prevented us from getting that first goal. Had we have gotten that maybe we would have got a little confidence and maybe come back.

Duncan asked me a question he probably shouldn't have asked, ... If Tony had a question, he should have come up to me. I would have answered him. When Tony didn't ask it and (Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon ) found out, then you saw what happened.

Wabash is one of America's greatest liberal arts colleges, rich in tradition and even richer in promise and possibilities. To be chosen to lead Wabash to new heights of achievement as its next president is a great honor.

[After White told McClendon what had happened, McClendon] wasn't too happy about it, ... Then, you saw what happened from there.

We hoped that we could come out and get the first and the energy would pick us up, but they kept getting the bounces.

What you've got right now is a technology that is jury-rigged from old technology. It was never really designed to provide a high-bandwidth connection and frankly doesn't do a good job of it.