"What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?"

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Running Quotes #And Love Quotes #Woods Quotes

“Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.”
“Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesnâ€™t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowellâ€™s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.”
“Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.”
“An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.”
“Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.”
“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”
“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”

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