"We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnsonâ€™s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search."

-- Spider Robinson

#Baby Quotes #Air Quotes #Hands Quotes

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”
“Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.”
“All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.”
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
“There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.”

Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.”

Source : DJ Patil (2011). “Building Data Science Teams”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children”
“I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.74, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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