"Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in."

-- William Least Heat-Moon

#Ocean Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin
“Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.”
“Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.”
“You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.”
“Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that...”
“Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2015). “The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2016”, p.328, Hachette UK
“Dead â€¦ might not be quiet at all.”

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