"Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction."

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Source : Daniel Pinkwater (2011). “Lizard Music”, p.46, New York Review of Books

Daniel Pinkwater

#Uncanny Quotes #Chickens Quotes

“The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.”
“A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.”
“I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.”
“In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.”
“I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have specialized equipment, Chinese food is really tough because you literally can't get the pan hot enough.”
“I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
“My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.”

Source : Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.181, Multnomah
“... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.”

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