"When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on."

-- Elizabeth Jane Howard

#Fall Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.”
“The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.”
“Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.”
“Keep up and you will be kept up.”
“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Source : Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.347, Atlantic Monthly Press
“There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.”

Source : David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.”
“Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.”

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