"What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it."

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Source : "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

William Least Heat-Moon

#Lying Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Porter, www.flare.com. January 31, 2012.
“Itâ€™s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is Godâ€™s will. Itâ€™s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when youâ€™re not supposed to have emptiness.”
“Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The best calumnies are spiced with truth.”
“You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people.”
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.”
“If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2017
“You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.”

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