"Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like.Â But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale."

-- Frederick Franck

#Thinking Quotes #Kale Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.”
“Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.”
“It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.”
“A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Blue Flower”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.”
“Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.”
“Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”
“I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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