"I can't write unless I'm overlooking water."

-- Mark Carwardine

#Writing Quotes #Water Quotes #Overlooking Quotes

“Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.”
“There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.”
“Here's a picture of me with REM. That's me in the corner.”
“They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.”
“It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.”
“There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”
“Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do”
“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”

Source : Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart

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