"Had I known but yesterday what I know today, Iâ€™d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday youâ€™d be no more my own, Iâ€™d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone."

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Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel: A Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

Carolyn Parkhurst

#Taken Quotes #Heart Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.”
“It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.”
“By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.”
“When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,-when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,-when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,-then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that they are separately studied.”
“I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.”
“My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.”
“That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a seed, a seed of life in her womb - Oh God. I think this God-given idea is so enormous, so eternal, so endlessly wise - that people should not be allowed to depict it in art!!”
“Water flows uphill towards money.”

Source : Marc Reisner (1993). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition”, p.25, Penguin

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