"I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away."

-- NoViolet Bulawayo

#Sound Quotes #Remember Quotes #Excited Quotes

“A goal is a dream with a finish line.”
“Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.”

Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”
“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”
“It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.”
“Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.”
“As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.”
“I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.”

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