"Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.”
“American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.”
“If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.”
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

Source : Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.”
“Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”
“Have character; don't be a character.”

Source : "Retired Jets and Dolphins QB, Chad Pennington Interview". Interview with Max Strauss, prointerviews.org. February 7, 2011.
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

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