"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich."

-- John Steinbeck

#Summer Quotes #Memories Quotes #Flower Quotes

“When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.”
“I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'”
“You're mine, Angel," he murmured, brushing the words across my jawbone as I arched my neck higher, inviting him to kiss everywhere. "You have me forever.”
“There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.”
“The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.”

Source : "Mentally ready: UFC 155 lightweight Myles Jury interview exclusive with MMAmania.com". Interview with Brian Hemminger, www.mmamania.com. December 27, 2012.
“At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.”
“Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.”
“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.”

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