"And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches..."

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Source : Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.107, Random House

Billy Collins

#Fall Quotes #Light Quotes #Window Quotes

“I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.”
“I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.”
“Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.”
“Smiling without good reason is demeaning.”

Source : Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.44, Obelix Books
“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”
“Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that constitute living organisms on a planet, and the nuclei of these same elements interact to generate the light of its star. Then the organisms on the planet come to depend wholly on that starlight, as they must if life is to persist. So it is that all life on the Earth runs on sunlight. [Referring to photosynthesis]”
“Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.”
“I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.”

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