"We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone."

-- James D. Houston

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Sensual Quotes

“A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.”

Source : Joseph Cook (1880). “Labor, with Preludes on Current Events”
“We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.”
“I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.”
“We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.”
“Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”
“I used to hate my hair. Now I love it. I spend hours brushing my hair out after it dries. I love it when it's big.”
“... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.”
“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!”

Source : Diane Duane (2007). “Wizards at War”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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