"Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?"

-- Julian Barnes

#Grief Quotes #Mean Quotes #Names Quotes

“We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting on the zoning board meetings, on the zoning commissions. Those are the people I want participating in business improvement in their own industry. The gentrification processes that often happen in cities so often manifest in street sweeps of sex workers. How do you get sex workers on neighborhood associations, regarded as members of the neighborhood?”
“Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.497, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Somewhere the hurting must stop,”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].”
“Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.”
“You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.”
“People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.”
“There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

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