"I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Coleman Barks

#Coffee Quotes #Book Quotes #Oil Quotes

“Minds are simply what brains do.”
“We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.”
“Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”

Source : "Great Paintings of the World". Book by Jean-François Guillou, p. 190, 2000.
“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
“I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.”
“The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.”

Source : Keith Carter (2008). “A Certain Alchemy”
“The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.”
“I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.”

Source : " Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee dies", www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.

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