"Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread."

-- John Milton

#Feet Quotes #Velvet Quotes

“My heart is heavy, she thought. Itâ€™s not just a saying. It is what isâ€”heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.”
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“Chic is a convent for unloved women.”
“It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.”
“There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".”
“Murder is not about lust and itâ€™s not about violence. Itâ€™s about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, itâ€™s being God.”
“I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.”
“[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.”

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