#linger

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#linger #sam-roth #grace

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#clock #death #drop #each #fever

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. ↗

— Alex Cox

#because #cowboy #cowboy hat #day #else

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger. ↗

— Jeff Zucker

#i #i think #know #leader #linger

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#book #books #each #finger #fingerprints

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#go #i #introspection #lingered #must

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#chance #i #intention #just #lingering

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#comes #knowledge #lingers