"I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing."

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Kiersten White

#Ocean Quotes #Two Quotes #Months Quotes

“If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.”

Source : "Viewers cry foul over Adrian Chiles' FA Cup commentary". www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.”

Source : R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.210, Verso Books
“Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press
“What I've found is there is no barometer that allows you to chart when you're oversaturating a desire. You're left really trying to respond on a gut level, because by the time you might do research, it's already too late. There's also a healthy tension between what are very sound business objectives and a very amorphous desire to preserve what's special.”
“The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.”
“To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.”
“You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.”
“A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.”

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