"I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down."

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Source : Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.173, A&C Black

Shannon Hale

#Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wings Quotes

“In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.”
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”

Source : "Patriotic gore" by Edmund Wilson, (p. 115), 1962.
“Bring It On, ..nobody in the world could handle me in a fight. Including Chuck Norris.”
“Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.”
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
“If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!”
“What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.”
“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”

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