"The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green."

-- A. S. Byatt

#Hair Quotes #Mind Quotes #Reptiles Quotes

“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
“Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.”

Source : Rita Levi-Montalcini (1988). “In praise of imperfection: my life and work”, Basic Books (AZ)
“But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.”

Source : "Still Loc'ed After Dark". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 2, 2000.
“You build a better company by building better people.”
“Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content.”

Source : "Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions".
“I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.”
“You waste life when you waste good food.”
“I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.”

Source : "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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