"Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop"

-- Kobayashi Issa

#Crush Quotes #Pearls Quotes #Care Quotes

“We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.”
“Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.”
“If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.”

Source : c.1900 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.5.
“The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.”
“I brought a condom," I tell her when I slide her panties down. We're both hot and sweaty, and I can't resist hr anymore. "I did, too," she whispers against my neck. "But we might not be able to use it." "Why not?" I expect her to tell em this was all a mistake, that she really didn't mean to get me all hot and bothered just to tell me I'm not worthy enough to take her virginity, but it's the truth. She clears her throat. "It all d-d-depends on whether or not you're allergic to l-l-latex.”
“Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.”
“Do not let emotions fluctuate with the up and down of your capital.”
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.”

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