"Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me."

-- Alice Sebold

#Father Quotes #Blue Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.”
“I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!”
“Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us.”
“I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.”
“Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.”
“I've always said this: I've never seen a Michelin three-starred restaurant that was a buffet. They usually serve Ã la carte. I do think the delivery of a specific service, a specific advice for a specific reason, is the way you get the equivalent of a Michelin three-starred relationship.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.”
“There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.29, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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