"That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I'm very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I'm good at something and have found success doesn't mean I'm done. I'm not even close to being done. I don't know if I ever will be done learning.”

Source : "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.
“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”
“Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.112, New York Review of Books
“In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goinâ€™ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethinâ€™ else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it.”
“Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.”
“THANK YOU everyone for supporting me and getting me in the top 3!!!! I love y'all!!!”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013
“America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for...”

Source : "Cindy Sheehan Unplugged". Cindy Sheehan's speech at a rally to honor Lynne Stewart at San Francisco State University, archive.frontpagemag.com. April 27, 2005.
“I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.”

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