"Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird."

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Mary Ruefle

#Weather Quotes #Light Quotes #Historical Quotes

“There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
“A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.”

Source : Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.”
“I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions and vague notions and scraps of knowledge. At some stage a form or, rather, a shape mysteriously emerges.”

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“To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.
“What you get is what you get.Â What you do with what you get, thatâ€™s more the point.”

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