"Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song."

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Source : Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

Beth Kephart

#Song Quotes #Giving Quotes #Body Quotes

“I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'”
“Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.”
“Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.”
“When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.”
“When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.”
“Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.”
“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”

Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.
“I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.”

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