"I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist."

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Source : "Life after Tulsa". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2003.

Gene Pitney

#Basketball Quotes #Football Quotes #Kids Quotes

“When all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.”
“Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.”
“If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.”

Source : Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Black and Blue Magic”, p.183, Open Road Media
“Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.”
“Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.”

Source : "Don’t Write What You Know". www.theatlantic.com. August 2011.
“The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.”
“Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.”
“I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.”

Source : Livejournal post, 2005.

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