"I get all tangled up in your ribbons."

-- Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry

#Tangled Quotes #Ribbons Quotes

“The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.”
“Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.
“Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.”
“It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.”
“My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.”
“Charlie Sheen has the potential to cause your soul to weep and forfeit”
“Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?”
“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.”

Source : "5×5: Brian Evenson". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermag.com. January 15, 2015.

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