"While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Butterfly Quotes #Writing Quotes #Wings Quotes

“The very important thing you should have is patience.”

Source : "Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo". Interview with Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.
“The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.”
“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
“Im plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.”
“I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.”
“The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.”
“When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.”
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.”

Source : Howard Zinn (1999). “Marx in Soho: A Play on History”, p.4, South End Press

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