"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."

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Annie Dillard

#Fall Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.”
“Well, in terms of the filming with the car, you always wanted to be on the side which the cameras weren't, because - and it sounds ridiculous, but getting in and out of that car, all in leather, in the heat, was a problem.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”
“My wife has a whim of iron”
“People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.”

Source : "The Many Moods of Owens - Why talented receiver does things his own way" by Nancy Gay, San Francisco Chronicle, p. C1, October 26, 2000.
“In a certain way working in animation has become very democratic because now anyone with the right technology can at least prepare a project from home in order to attract investors. Some people can even set up a small home studio and start working.”
“We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.”
“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

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