"I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat."

--

Source : 1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

Djuna Barnes

#Humble Quotes #Wind Quotes #Cows Quotes

“Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands”
“No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.”

Source : "The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
“One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.141, U of Minnesota Press
“It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.”
“Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.”
“The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.”
“For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.”
“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”

Source : William Cobbett (2016). “Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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