“Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.” IfsMindLongWaterSixSummerLowsRiversEightMilesBarsBoatDryLazyAutumnPoolTwistedWadeQuicksandShuddering Book:Goodbye to a river: a narrative Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative
“So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?” KnowsLongMatterHelpingSleepKnowingHealthyBarsJuiceHelp YourselfNo Sleep Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.” PeopleLongTogetherCompanyFourBiggerTwentiesBarsGiantsWorking TogetherSoloDuets Author:Mark Morris
“The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.” LongHumorousBarsDishesSoapSlime Author:Rich Hall