"I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance."

-- David Ebershoff

#Ocean Quotes #Second Chance Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.”
“It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.”
“All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears: "The Last Time Anyone Heard From Me, I Was 16 and Pregnant"". Interview with Wendy Shanker, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2012.
“I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.”
“The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”

Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”
“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK
“Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.”

Source : FaceBook post by Derek Webb from Sep 06, 2011
“Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.”

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