"Memphisâ€”itâ€™s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. Itâ€™s what they do. Itâ€™s not following you, and itâ€™s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother."

-- Libba Bray

#Brother Quotes #Flower Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you will discover the human foot. On discovering it, your joy will be as great as if you had invented it. But this joy is the greatest, because no human invention even of Mr. Ford or Mr. Marconi is within a mile of a foot.”
“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
“My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.”
“In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I woreâ€¦Still, I've always believedâ€”still doâ€”that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber
“I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?”
“I choose roles that are not me.”

Source : IMDb Mini Biography by Jon C. Hopwood, www.imdb.com.
“I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.”
“It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.”

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