"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."

-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Simple Quotes #Bird Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyeballs water.”

Source : "Shatterday: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 1, 2014.
“I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.”

Source : John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”
“There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.”
“On average, women need to be asked to run seven times before they actually do. While men, who are more likely to run, usually decide to do so on their own. We should be asking more women we know to run for offices across the spectrum - at the local, state, and federal levels.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.”
“Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.”

Source : Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
“There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.”
“Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.”

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