"The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me."

--

C. K. Williams

#Writing Quotes #Silence Quotes #Eating Quotes

“The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...”
“As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.”
“The business of the country is business.”
“When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.”
“The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press
“You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.”
“As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every moment of my life, including my emotions, attitudes, and motivations. The depth of emotion I experienced during this life review was astonishing. Not only could I feel the way both I and the other person had felt when an incident took place, I could also feel the feelings of the next person they reacted to. I was in a chain reaction of emotion, one that showed how deeply we affect one another.”
“I'm sure there has been something ridiculous [to sign], but nothing springs to mind. You have the usual things like breasts and such.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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