"What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places."

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Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

Marianne Wiggins

#Moving Quotes #Facts Quotes #Size Quotes

“The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.”

Source : "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.
“People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to us from within our shared morality, but engaging in something more like "persuasive definition." They want us to look at the world and ourselves in a different way. Someday these prohibitions against flying and eating meat may be written into our moral psychology, but it will only be after there are viable, widely shared alternatives that are beginning to be widely adopted.”
“Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.”
“I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.”
“When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”
“Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.”
“I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.”
“Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."”

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