Quotes
Authors
Jeanette Winterson

"Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think Iâ€™m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeonâ€™s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Wall Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.”
“A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.”
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

Source : "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..
“Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.”

Source : "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.
“Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different.”
“I think it's important for us to allow ourselves to be in creative bubble when you really need to finish something. You can always re enter the world after, once you feel like you're done with it.”
“While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.”
“It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.”

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