"A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him."

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Source : Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.9, Random House

Billy Collins

#Wind Quotes #Arms Quotes #Faces Quotes

“How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.”
“Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.”
“All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
“The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.”

Source : "What would war with Iraq cost?" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2003.
“I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which we worked on together at Times Square Church. We joined together as Trace Life Media to be a directing/producing team to be able to assist churches in the production of a play in their own community or to bring a fully-produced productions - something that will be ministering to the Body of Christ.”
“I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.”
“I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.”
“My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies.”

Source : "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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