"Time expands and contracts. When it expands, itâ€™s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesnâ€™t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place youâ€™ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness"

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Eye Quotes #People Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?”
“I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
“There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.”
“I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of his nose and climbed up from there to tickle into his teardrop ducts, so in his moss green pupils, curious, insistent, accusing sparks of questions continued to light up and fade away like fireflies flitting about on summer nights.”
“May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.”

Source : George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.90, e-artnow sro

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