"I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate."

-- David Antin

#Distinction Quotes #Unsatisfied Quotes

“The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.”
“I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.”

Source : "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.
“As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.”
“It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.”
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.
“There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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