"We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street."

-- Aimee Bender

#Hands Quotes #World Quotes #Streets Quotes

“The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.”
“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
“Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.”
“There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.”
“I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effect, what you're doing is you're entering the lottery. You're hoping that you play well (and that) you play your best on the day that you're heard, and you're hoping that the people who are judging will like what you do.”

Source : "Not My Job: Pianist Emanuel Ax Takes A Quiz On Axe Body Spray". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 30, 2013.
“There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.”
“I started skating when I was six years old.”
“envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ...”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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