"There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke."

-- George Eliot

#Glasses Quotes #Hands Quotes #Bird Quotes

“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,”

Source : Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr
“I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that's what men do.”
“Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.”
“Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed ...”

Source : Dorothy Gilman (2014). “Palm for Mrs. Pollifax”, p.109, Fawcett
“What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.”

Source : "Letter to My Younger Self: Phylicia Rashad" by Phylicia Rashad, www.oprah.com. April 2006.
“When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.”
“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”

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