"Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light."

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Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.147, Hachette UK

Elizabeth Kostova

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions”

Source : "Technology: Can We Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?" by Jim Selman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2013.
“I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.”
“It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.”
“The secret of charm is bullshit.”
“I'm not Zappa, you know. I'm just Terry.”
“I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun”
“Live in your roots, not in your branches.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media
“Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always â€˜under the harrowâ€™.”

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