"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."

-- Daniel Boone

#Delight Quotes #Summit Quotes

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.”
“Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.”
“I would rather be dead than empty”
“I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.”
“Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.”
“Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?”
“If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.”

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