"You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends."

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Jenny Offill

#Thinking Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”
“Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.”
“Thereâ€™s going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and itâ€™s going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria,”
“With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countriesâ€¦What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.”

Source : "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.
“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.”

Source : Rudolf Virchow (1958). “Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays”, p.69, Stanford University Press
“It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to.”
“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.”
“A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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