"Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes."

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Source : James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press

James Wright

#Eye Quotes #Ashes Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.”
“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
“I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.”
“I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.”
“I guess my favorite way to travel is in a car, especially if you get to go some place cool. The bullet train in Japan is cool; but overall, driving through certain areas, like the desert in the United States, or the Black Forest in Germany, you feel the nature unfolding.”
“Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.”
“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.”

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