"Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Your eyes keep going back to them, for lack of anything more interesting to look at, and then you feel bad for staring."

-- Mary Roach

#Eye Quotes #Airports Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.”
“We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2006). “The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“You smell good, too,â€ said Patch Itâ€™s called a shower.â€ I was staring straight ahead. When he didnâ€™t answer, I turned sideways. â€œSoap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€ Naked. I know the drill.”
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.”
“I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.”
“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”

Source : 'Siris' (1744) para. 368
“[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws).”

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