"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Needs Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Need You Quotes

“We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”
“It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.”
“We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.”
“If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
“Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.”
“Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.”
“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”
“Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?”

Source : "Vintage Keating". Book by Brian Carroll, 2010.

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