"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Sacrifice Quotes #Movement Quotes #Chance Quotes

“When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.”
“I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.”
“My mother played piano so we always had music around the house”

Source : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
“I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.”
“It's great to be back on terra cotta”
“We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.”
“Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.”
“Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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