"Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair"

-- Tom Waits

#Fall Quotes #Hair Quotes #Window Quotes

“I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.”
“Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.”
“Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.”
“The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.”

Source : Gerald R. Barrett, Thomas L. Erskine, Conrad Aiken (1972). “From fiction to film: Conrad Aiken's Silent snow, secret snow”
“In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.”
“During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.”
“Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.”

Source : "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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