"I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems."

-- Norman Lock

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”
“There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.”

Source : "Crudup's in the Running / Star of `Without Limits' could be the Next Big Thing" by Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 04, 1998.
“One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.”
“Nobody knew how to be what they were right.”
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.”
“I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.”

Source : "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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