"You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Running Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

Source : Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24
“My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.”

Source : Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.181, Multnomah
“If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.”

Source : Ronald Sukenick (1985). “In form, digressions on the act of fiction”, Southern Illinois University
“I hold those wise who know how to be happy.”
“Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.”
“Only mediocrity escapes criticism.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1159, Penguin UK
“A liar freely gives his oath”

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