"And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Hands Quotes #Melting Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.”

Source : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press
“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.”

Source : 1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.
“Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.”
“I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'”
“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.”
“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”
“Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.”
“The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.”

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