"What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!"

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Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

James Sheridan Knowles

#Sports Quotes #Fire Quotes #Air Quotes

“Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.”
“Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?”
“I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.”
“Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.”
“I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.”
“Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.129, Egmont UK

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