"He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Nature Quotes #Heart Quotes #Air Quotes

“We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.”
“Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.”
“Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.”
“It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.”

Source : "Britons Beaten?". "TIME" Magazine, October 16, 1933.
“Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.”
“This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.”
“Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.”

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