"We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten."

-- Ivan Vladislavic

#Ice Quotes #Sea Quotes #Perception Quotes

“What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.”
“Smile to the future and it will smile back to you”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 14, 2015
“I'm inspired to inspire others.”
“If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.”

Source : E. C. Myers (2016). “Fair Coin”, p.109, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come.”
“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.”
“I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 21, 2015

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