"The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Coffee Quotes #Marine Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.”
“People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.”
“A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.”

Source : "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.
“I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.”

Source : "I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2005.
“He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.”
“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”

Source : Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.699, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.”
“We believe that worship is far more than prayer and preaching and gospel performance. The supreme act of worship is to keep the commandments, to follow in the footsteps of the Son of God, to do ever those things that please Him. It is one thing to give lip service to the Lord; it is quite another to respect and honor His will by following the example He has set for us.”

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