"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."

-- Tracy Kidder

#Glasses Quotes #Want Quotes #Clear Quotes

“Competition is good and has served us well.”
“Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.”
“It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.436, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Mar 05, 2014
“Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.”
“A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.”
“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.”
“We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!”

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