"The real meaning of a poem is to stop time."

-- Ralph Fletcher

#Real Quotes #Stop Time Quotes

“As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.”

Source : "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I just donâ€™t want to come down to that level of societyâ€¦.the ones who sit by their televisions, drink their beer, their guts fat, vicariously living someone elseâ€™s life, in a destructive way. I want a positive way.”
“A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.”

Source : The Office Economist, Vol. 17-21. p. 145, 1935.
“...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.”
“I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.”
“Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die.”
“My hustle is just too crazy. Iâ€™m trying to take over the world!”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE Interview with Spencer Pratt & Heidi Montag of “The Hills”". Interview with Shea Sylvia, www.alloy.com. April 12, 2007.

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