"The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground."

-- Hal Porter

#Morning Quotes #Nature Quotes #Air Quotes

“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.”
“Whatâ€™s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.”
“I always thought records were there to be broken.”

Source : "Michael Schumacher 'pretty happy' if Sebastian Vettel breaks records" by Andrew Benson, www.bbc.com. September 4, 2013.
“I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.”
“Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.”
“Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.”
“Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal”
“As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.”

Source : "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

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