"For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be â€” or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Sweet Quotes #Air Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management”
“The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.”
“May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.”

Source : Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker (1975). “Joy of Cooking”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
“Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.”
“You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.”
“I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.”
“it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”
“The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.”

Source : "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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