“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Source: Next Door Savior
“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
As quoted in Woody Guthrie: A Life (1981) by Joe Klein, p. 160
Context: Woody is just Woody. Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of the people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.
Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who
Ood Sigma, to the Tenth incarnation of the Doctor, in The End of Time [4.18] (1 January 2010) <!-- written with Steven Moffat though only the final scene, and not this one. -->
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Variant: If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Source: City of Ashes
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), pp. 525-526.