"The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees."

-- Isak Dinesen

#Tired Quotes #Night Quotes #Air Quotes

“Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.”
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.”

Source : Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)
“There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in discussions about bringing over Muslim refugees into this country, with a president who's now mocking, you know, the talk radio people, mocking the audience on talk video, mocking the sites like Breitbart, that are bringing up these issues.”
“Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.”
“If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.”
“It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor.”
“The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.”

Source : "84 years an actor". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2014.
“she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away”

Source : Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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