"Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more"

-- John L. Parker Jr.

#Running Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes

“If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper”

Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.
“Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.”

Source : "Congress Must Act to Prevent Student Loan Rates From Doubling" by Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.”
“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.”
“Life ain't the movies.”
“We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.”
“I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf

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