"Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand."

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Source : JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

JoAnn Ross

#Middle Quotes #Quicksand Quotes

“When you ask a girl out and she suggest a bar, you're answer shouldn't be great, I like that bar and they'll have the Rockets game on too.”
“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing me into a brief sprint to catch up. We're conditioned from birth she said. I swear to god,if I ever have a daughter I'll ban all of the Disney princesses from the house. Except Mulan. She kicks ass.”
“Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agencyâ€™s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate todayâ€™s historic feat.”
“People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.”
“For me, Yves Saint Laurent is a hero because he fought his whole life against illness. Maybe the only way to fight this illness for him was to make it positive with creation. Otherwise he would have been lonely or in the hospital. He had so many issues with alcohol, drugs, and everything, this explains a lot about his necessity to create.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.”
“I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.”
“Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.”

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