"It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Expression Quotes #Causes Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.”
“They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.”

Source : "New Orleans Mayor Lashes Out at Feds". WWL-AM Radio Interview, us.cnn.com. September 02, 2005.
“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”
“Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.”
“I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.”
“Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
“Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half â€“ that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.”

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