"Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg."

-- Jo Baker

#Eggs Quotes #Apples Quotes #Buttons Quotes

“Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 7, 2010
“A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.”
“Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!”
“Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions
“Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.”

Source : The Voice of the Coyote Introduction
“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
“We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near. We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond. Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?”

Source : Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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