"First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld."

-- John Crowley

#Sweat Quotes #Long Quotes #Pirate Quotes

“The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.”
“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.”
“I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.”
“A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.”
“All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.180, Vintage
“I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.”
“You know when this guy explains the essence of dance to his students he isn’t faking it. But it’s when the choreographer-dancer’s takes the floor that we’re really floored. When Prabhu dances time freezes.”

Source : "'When Prabhu dances time freezes' – Subhash K Jha reviews ABCD (Any Body Can Dance)". bollyspice.com. February 12, 2013.

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