"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."

-- Kathy Acker

#Expectations Quotes #Trying Quotes #Language Quotes

“A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.”
“Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.”

Source : 'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7
“The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.”
“WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.”

Source : "An Honest President". Book by H. Paul Jeffers, 2000.
“You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”
“To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.”
“The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.”
“As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.”

Source : "Figure Skater Brian Boitano Comes Out As Gay Ahead Of Sochi Olympics" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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