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“Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.”

Giving Children Turns Space Rocks Particular Our Children Your Children Fishing Rough Yards Bugs Small Child Manicures

Author:Richard Louv

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

People Enough Turns Stars Millions Minutes Rocks Stage Fronts Tvs Thousand Lucky Concerts Rock Star Spinal Tap

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.”

Has Beens Turns Rocks Misery Vices Newspapers Burning Folly Warning Multitudes Beacons Admonition

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”

Mean Enough Running Past Turns Waiting Wonder Worry Rocks Missing Seasons Distance Likes Pushing Horizon Fades Brushes Moses Pondering Rushing Advent

Author:Jan L. Richardson

“It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.”

People Turns Rocks Rock N Roll Wikipedia

Author:Jimmy Wales

“I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.”

Ifs Writing I Can Hard Song Turns Effects Rocks Havens Guitar Heavy Strings Metals Vibrations Because I Can Distortion Acoustics Collision Heavy Metal Acoustic Guitar Hard Rock Rock Song

Author:Corey Taylor