"It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget."

-- Walter Mosley

#Talking Quotes #Water Quotes #Pirate Quotes

“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.”
“Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag
“So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."”
“I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.”
“But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?”
“Continual learning is the key to continual living.”
“All I want is to enter my house justified,”

Source : "Fictional character: Steve Judd". "Ride the High Country", en.wikiquote.org. 1962.

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