"You can taste a word."

-- Pearl Bailey

“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.”
“A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.”
“Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.”
“I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Letâ€™s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you donâ€™t have the time, donâ€™t cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time.”
“It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.”
“There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.”

Source : Pindar (1942). “Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions”
“Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writingâ€”and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?”

Source : "Danger" by Rick Bass, www.narrativemagazine.com. 2011.

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