"I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible."

-- Jean Houston

#Hands Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.”
“Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.”
“It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.”
“I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.”
“It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.”
“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”
“A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.”
“Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.”

Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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