"So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back."

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Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.15, Egmont UK

Cynthia Hand

#Boys Quotes #Hair Quotes #Tree Quotes

“It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.”

Source : Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63
“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!”
“So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.”
“Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all”
“There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.”

Source : "Interview: Giovanni Ribisi on 'Middle Men'". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.mtv.com. August 6, 2010.
“So much has changed about the culture, it's so much more about money and celebrity. Celebrity not in the sense of people who achieve something, because in the old days, I think if you were famous it meant you were an achiever. Now it's the Kardashians.”
“We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.”
“I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.”

Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.

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