"I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre."

-- Sara Paretsky

#Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.”

Source : Cennino Cennini (1954). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.17, Courier Corporation
“There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.”
“The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the two.... I know a lot of people who live in Marin County and contemplate spirituality and never get out of the hot tub.”
“The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.”
“Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.212, Egmont UK
“You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world”
“Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.”
“Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.”

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