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“The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.”
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“She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.”
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“Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.”
Source : "Busted bust up". Kerrang! Magazine, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005. 
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“Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.”
Source : Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin
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“Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!”
Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80
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“Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.”
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“Fleets cannot operate without bases.”
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“Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.”
