"I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you."

--

Katherine Dunn

#Mother Quotes #Healing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.”
“Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.”
“When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.”

Source : "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.
“You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.”
“New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.”
“School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.”
“Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.”
“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

You may also like:

Chuck Palahniuk
Novelist
George Saunders
Writer
Joy Williams
Singer-songwriter
Karen Russell
Novelist
Kelly Link
Editor
Mark Dunn
Author
Monica Drake
Writer
Russell Banks
Writer
Flannery O'Connor
Writer