"They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Vanity Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Hens Quotes

“And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.”

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.21, Emblem Editions
“There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.”
“At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.”
“...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation...”
“Ally McCoist, Kenny McDowall, Ian Durrant, Jim Stewart - all fantastic people. It is still a brilliant club for me, although technically it is now a new club”
“Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.”
“Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.153, University of Michigan Press
“Elected presidents are for countries.”

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