"After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there."

-- Roni Horn

#Iceland Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list...”

Source : "'A Second 9/11': An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine" by Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca. October 31, 2008.
“Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.”
“The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.”
“I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.”
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”

Source : Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)
“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
“Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.”
“The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.”

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