"I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere."

-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Distance Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Flying Quotes

“When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one hasâ€: â€œI have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.”
“It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.”
“Sometimes when you feel the urge, you've just gotta go.”
“Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.”

Source : "A Writer's Debilitating Illness Becomes Her Lens on Society" by Judith Gingold, www.sfgate.com. August 8, 1999.
“Whoever tells the best story wins.”
“Be happy and be satisfied. Find fulfillment in everything you do.”
“My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.”

Source : "NBC's Ann Curry: John McCain is Old, He's 71. Did I Mention He's 71?". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2008.
“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

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