"Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment."

-- Annie Dillard

#Inspirational Quotes #Voice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.”
“There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.”
“Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.”

Source : JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
“I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.”
“Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.”
“I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.”

Source : "Red Sox's Bronson Arroyo Records Album". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2005.
“Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, ***** for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.”

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