"Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored."

-- Rodman Philbrick

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“It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.”
“Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.”
“Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.”

Source : Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, November 5, 2006.
“I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You shouldn't be worried when people call, communicate, yell, argue, or cry for you. You should be worried when everyone is silent.”
“There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.”
“We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.”

Source : Allan Pease, Barbara Pease (2004). “Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It”, p.9, Harmony
“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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